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Mastodon's not the only player in the federated social space, just the app with the biggest footprint. You can get a WordPress blog, install the ActivityPub pl
by riffic 5y ago
Mastodon's not the only player in the federated social space, just the app with the biggest footprint.
You can get a WordPress blog, install the ActivityPub plugin, and you're now a fediverse actor which other actors can then subscribe to.
Mastodon's cool and all but let's not conflate this piece of software with the bigger network.
- cblconfederate 5y agoI wonder if there's an alternative protocol that is fully peer-to-peer.
- fleddr 5y agoEarly days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky_(protocol) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky_(protocol)
- cblconfederate 5y agothanks i forgot about that. actually doubt it will bear fruit as twitter has a vested interest not to let this grow. More likely some kid will come up with a better idea
- fleddr 5y agoWell, the new CEO was a leader of that project, so let's see.
- riffic 5y agobluesky's not even a protocol though. At best you could call it a working group. I'd personally call it "vaporware". and look at the talk page, I said the same thing a few weeks ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Bluesky_(protocol) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Bluesky_(protocol)