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> Effectively, Twitter is now marketing itself as distinct from the FediVerse I only heard of the Fediverse today (on mastodon) Has Twitter ever marketed itse

> Effectively, Twitter is now marketing itself as distinct from the FediVerse I only heard of the Fediverse today (on mastodon) Has Twitter ever marketed itself as a member of a federation ?

kmeisthax 4y ago
Jack Dorsey did try funding a competing federation protocol called Bluesky[0], but I imagine anyone at Twitter who was in favor of that has either left or been fired. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky_(protocol) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky_(protocol)
JdeBP 4y ago
Mastodon is the name of two pieces of software, a WWW server and (a couple of) iOS/Android apps. There are other WWW server softwares in use on the FediVerse, such as Frendica. There are also other apps, such as (for some examples) Tusky, Fedilab, and Megalodon on Android, and MetaText, Mastoot, Tooot, and Tootle on iOS. The actual network is the FediVerse. * https://fedi.tips/mastodon-and-the-fediverse-beginners-start-here/#whatismastodon https://fedi.tips/mastodon-and-the-fediverse-beginners-start... Indeed, the Mastodon people are concerned over the trademark dilution aspects of sysops using "mastodon" in their domain names when it isn't the Mastodon WWW server software in use. * https://joinmastodon.org/sv/trademark https://joinmastodon.org/sv/trademark Those familiar with FidoNet will find the FediVerse very familiar in structure, and the distinction between Twitter and the FediVerse is much akin to the distinction between BIX/Compuserve and FidoNet back in the 1980s. Much is the same, including local funding of nodes by sysops and users, local policies set by local sysops, and the fact that not everything gets distributed everywhere. (There aren't quite FidoNet-style local echoes, but there is a marked difference, even across instances in a single country such as, say, the U.K., as to what can be found on each instance. Quite a lot of discussion in the #TweetBot hashtag can be seen at https://tapbots.social/tags/TweetBot https://tapbots.social/tags/TweetBot , and markedly fewer -- on Saturday almost none -- of the same posts can be seen at https://know.me.uk/tags/TweetBot https://know.me.uk/tags/TweetBot .) To those familiar with Twitter, one way of thinking about it is that it is not one big central Twitter that carries everything on the planet all mushed together, but lots of little separately owned Twitters that can cross-post, and that don't carry everything.

> Effectively, Twitter is now marketing itself as distinct from the FediVerse I only heard of the Fediverse today (on mastodon) Has Twitter ever marketed itself as a member of a federation ?

kmeisthax 4y ago

Jack Dorsey did try funding a competing federation protocol called Bluesky[0], but I imagine anyone at Twitter who was in favor of that has either left or been fired. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky_(protocol) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky_(protocol)

JdeBP 4y ago

Mastodon is the name of two pieces of software, a WWW server and (a couple of) iOS/Android apps. There are other WWW server softwares in use on the FediVerse, such as Frendica. There are also other apps, such as (for some examples) Tusky, Fedilab, and Megalodon on Android, and MetaText, Mastoot, Tooot, and Tootle on iOS. The actual network is the FediVerse. * https://fedi.tips/mastodon-and-the-fediverse-beginners-start-here/#whatismastodon https://fedi.tips/mastodon-and-the-fediverse-beginners-start... Indeed, the Mastodon people are concerned over the trademark dilution aspects of sysops using "mastodon" in their domain names when it isn't the Mastodon WWW server software in use. * https://joinmastodon.org/sv/trademark https://joinmastodon.org/sv/trademark Those familiar with FidoNet will find the FediVerse very familiar in structure, and the distinction between Twitter and the FediVerse is much akin to the distinction between BIX/Compuserve and FidoNet back in the 1980s. Much is the same, including local funding of nodes by sysops and users, local policies set by local sysops, and the fact that not everything gets distributed everywhere. (There aren't quite FidoNet-style local echoes, but there is a marked difference, even across instances in a single country such as, say, the U.K., as to what can be found on each instance. Quite a lot of discussion in the #TweetBot hashtag can be seen at https://tapbots.social/tags/TweetBot https://tapbots.social/tags/TweetBot , and markedly fewer -- on Saturday almost none -- of the same posts can be seen at https://know.me.uk/tags/TweetBot https://know.me.uk/tags/TweetBot .) To those familiar with Twitter, one way of thinking about it is that it is not one big central Twitter that carries everything on the planet all mushed together, but lots of little separately owned Twitters that can cross-post, and that don't carry everything.