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The fediverse, explained (www.theverge.com)
submitted 9 months ago by return2ozma to c/technology
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[–] killeronthecorner 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

The fediverse is as if you took X, TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook and made them all interoperable so you could post anything from anywhere, and all your followers would be guaranteed to see it. And if you wanted to leave one platform for another, you could bring all your content, all your followers, all your everything with you.

NO. NO, NO, NO.

That isn't what it fucking is at all! It's not another open standard for five companies to abuse until they're the only sound that you can hear because they're drowning everything else out.

I know they're trying to appeal to the layman but, I dunno, try harder maybe?

Not everything in life is about posturing and followers. The best parts of the fediverse are anonymous and unadulterated by corporate interests and having advertising rammed down your throat every 5 seconds. that's what killed the open web.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Totally agree with what you're saying, but I still think the way the article explained it is more appealing to the layman, even if it's an oversimplification. It's a publicity piece on the fediverse, the only goal is to get people in the door and then they'll figure out for themselves if they belong here.

Btw a lot of discussion already happened on the original post, this crosspost was kinda unnecessary imo

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

It’s an interconnected social platform ecosystem based on an open protocol called ActivityPub, which allows you to port your content, data, and follower graph between networks.

You know how everyone online is like, “Give me your email, it’s the only stable thing on the web, and so it’s the most important tool for building a lasting audience” now?

And the places where you connect with your friends, or make a living as a creator, couldn’t be irrevocably destroyed by a billionaire with a sink and a bunch of weird ideas about financial products?

The ActivityPub protocol I mentioned a minute ago is a little like email: it has specifications for senders and receivers and supports lots of different kinds of content.

You can always have different accounts for different things, but I think many people will end up having one main identity — your Threads username, or your Mastodon handle, or even a domain you hook up to all of these services individually — that ports across all of these systems.

A lot of folks I’ve talked to say that, basically, if we’d built social media like this 20 years ago, the world would be better and smarter and we’d all be richer and better-looking.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Excellent! I've been trying to get friends on the Fediverse, and this is the best general explanation I've seen so far.