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Why is this about Mastodon? Isn't ActivityPub or Fediverse the real secret sauce and Mastodon just one of the many interoperable implementations? (These are ge

• ciroduran 4y ago
  Or blogging in general! Or hand-made websites if we want to go further back (or right now if you use [zonelets](https://zonelets.net/ https://zonelets.net/) ) How would this article read if you replace any Mastodon mention with blogging? There have been ways to communicate and receive feedback from that communication for quite a while. They're not particularly cool, or sexy, or whatever you want to call them. And that's fine. The real value here is the people you connect with, the network effect as it's been named. It was blogging years ago, then centralised social media took over. Maybe it's time for the next thing. Re: Mastodon - ActivityPub is the protocol and maybe the secret sauce, but it looks to me that Mastodon is the case of an overnight success 5 years in the making. I remember opening a Mastodon account in 2017 and not giving it much importance, but now that conditions have changed, I see it with much more value than 5 years ago.
• int_19h 4y ago
  Mostly because Mastodon is what the vast majority of users see as a frontend in this context.