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1. Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Nov-2022 01:50:47 JST Chris Trottier

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   • Zoe Williams

   @zoesqwilliams What the Fediverse actually is needs to be shared and publicized more often.

   So let me tell you the broader implications. The Fediverse is no less than the biggest technological great leap forward for social media in a generation.

   Protocols like ActivityPub allow different apps and instances to talk to each other.

   Because of this wildly different apps can be built—and they can all use the same network effect without having to build one from scratch.

   • Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Nov-2022 01:50:48 JST Chris Trottier

     • Zoe Williams

     Lovely article by @zoesqwilliams about her journey from Twitter to Mastodon. It really is.

     But I feel it needs a corrective.

     It's not called the Fediverse because Mastodon is comprised of many servers.

     It's called the Fediverse because there's literally a universe of federated protocols, apps, instances, and tools that talk to each other.

     Mastodon is just one of those apps. There's also Pixelfed, Peertube, Misskey, etc. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/nov/16/could-this-be-twitter-without-the-toxic-slurry-my-week-on-mastodon

     aab repeated this.