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Think of it like email servers. My emails go through mine, and yours go through yours, but if I know your address I can still send you a message. It doesn't ma
by multiplegeorges 4y ago
Think of it like email servers. My emails go through mine, and yours go through yours, but if I know your address I can still send you a message.
It doesn't matter that I'm on Gmail and you're on Protonmail. Just like it doesn't matter that I'm on ruby.social and you're on mastodon.online.
It's email servers for social posts.
- tokamak-teapot 4y agoWhat about ones that don't interconnect? Is that a thing? Do users know where they should go in order to be connected to everyone? With a mobile app that picks a 'server' for you without interaction, no problem. With a browser where you see an address and it's not what you expect - like 'twitter.com' is what people expect - how does a user know if they're going the right way?
- rsynnott 4y agoThere are a few that don't interconnect at all (I think Parler or Gab or one of those is an unfederated Mastodon service, all alone in the world), but it would be more common for some of them to block others.