Notices by blaine@mastodon.social

@evan the way I’ve always imagined this working on fedi is:

1. Circles are defined by account; don’t do lists, curating people is weird. Do an alt account, instead!

2. But some “circles” are defined collectively, and those are just like mailing lists; join an instance as a foreign account, subscribe to the local feed & post into that instance as your foreign identity.

I don’t think (2) exists today in Mastodonland, but we’re not far off? @darius?

The media has been reporting a lot on mastodon, but often reports as though mastodon is the fediverse. I saw a well-intentioned article today that the platform started six years ago, but this erases the immense amount of work that many put into ActivityPub.

Having done standards work myself and learning that I am unable to manage the immense social pressures of coordinating divergent goals and stay happy, my hat's off to the dedicated folks who made the fediverse happen.

@cwebber 👏