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No, it's fine. Keep conflating the entire fediverse with Mastodon, it's fine. Just like email with Gmail or the web with Chrome, it's not really necessary to re
by Cyberdog 4y ago
No, it's fine. Keep conflating the entire fediverse with Mastodon, it's fine. Just like email with Gmail or the web with Chrome, it's not really necessary to recognize that alternative interfaces to what is in fact an open standard exist and are in fact widely-used. I'm not really, really bothered by it or anything.
- stinkytaco 4y agoThey are on the fosstodon server, so I'm not sure it's entirely unreasonable to say "mastodon" here. Some of those followers may not be using Mastodon, but LibreOffice is.
- Cyberdog 4y agoBut they do not have 10k followers on the Fosstodon instance; that doesn't really make sense unless you were awkwardly counting only followers from other users of that instance. They have 10k followers on the whole network. At any rate, it's still conflating the software with one instance that is running it.
- m-p-3 4y agoSo? The whole idea of the fediverse is to be able to follow and communicate no matter where your account resides. My account is on mastodon.social and I follow it, why wouldn't that count?
- Cyberdog 4y agoYes, that's my point. Mastodon is just a piece of software which interacts with the network that makes that cross-instance interaction pssible. It is not the network itself. But so many people conflate the two.