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What is Mastadon / Fediverse? I read the intros and wikipedias, but I still don't get it.

• skee8383 4y ago
  It's a meme. there is no such thing as federation. when every server is hosted on infrastructure owned by a few big tech companies. theres nothing federated at all about any of it. only way federation or decentralization can work is if everyone is hosting nodes from home. but people don't want to do that so...
• culi 4y ago
  Check out fediverse.party for other tools in this space. Federateable software like Mastodon (twitter alternative), PeerTube (youtube alternative), Plemora (tumblr alternative), Lemmy (reddit alternative), etc is software where anyone with a server can host their own "instance" of the software. A key to them is some kind of protocol that allows different instances to talk to each other If you disagree with the way Twitter is being run and you decide to run your own version of Twitter you'd have to start from scratch and be at a huge disadvantage due to the network effect. However, in the fediverse, this isn't as much of a problem since you can simply follow other instances I believe that usually "Fediverse" is reserved for software where that central protocol is ActivityPub, but there are other non-AP-based examples of federated software out there One big player in this space is FramaSoft which is a French company dedicated to "deGooglizing" the internet and creating working, mature, FLOSS, alternatives. They've increasingly supported more federated projects in the Fediverse