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Is the fediverse a new social network or a concept? I think there is hope for it as a general concept if, for example, the US government gets mad at someone lik
by gpsx 4y ago
Is the fediverse a new social network or a concept? I think there is hope for it as a general concept if, for example, the US government gets mad at someone like Facebook and requires them and other social networks/messaging platforms to make their content available through standard interfaces. It could be something like RSS for posts and other appropriate standards for chat, audio calls, video calls, etc. Then someone on [insert fledgling social network here] could "follow" someone on Facebook and someone on What's App could text someone on WeChat.
- lokedhs 4y agoIt's both. At its core is a set of protocols that allows different software to interoperate in the way you envisioned. These protocols allows pretty much everything you mentioned with the possible exception of video/audio calls. I don't think activitypub has support for realtime protocols. There are many implementations that uses these protocols and that can interoperate today. The most well known of these is Mastodon.