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How Mastodon made friends with Meta (www.platformer.news)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Founder Eugen Rochko on helping Threads federate, dodging venture capital, and why he hopes Bluesky abandons its protocol

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 9 months ago (3 children)

While technically true, I think calling Mastodon the smallest amongst them is a little indigenous. After all, wasn’t the idea of ActivityPub “protocols, not platforms”?

For me personally, Mastodon opened me to the world of federated social media, and I’m now hosting my own AP-based single-user social media page running GoToSocial. My usage won’t add to Mastodon’s MAU’s count, but 90% of my interactions are with Mastodon users, and I think that’s the beauty of the system.

[–] [email protected] 98 points 9 months ago (3 children)

little indigenous

I think you mean disingenuous.

[–] [email protected] 118 points 9 months ago (3 children)

That depends, are you using the Native app?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Lmao

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Perfect joke

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

Well fucking done! Had me cackling so loud I startled my cat! 😂

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Nah I like the idea of Facebook finding a little island of tech nerds who worship some god call 'ActivityPubbinus' and proceed to whip the foreign colonialists with CAT6 cables.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Punishment includes shoving an Ethernet cable up their asses.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You're absolutely right - not sure what I was thinking about when I wrote that!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

We all make typos. Autocorrect is our common enemy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I guess for now it's misleading more than anything, as they say it's the smallest of the three major federated platforms. That's hardly precise as neither Threads nor Bluesky is federated yet.

Bluesky should federate at the end of the month though, and a bridge to activitypub is already ready. Interesting times ahead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What does GoToSocial offer that Mastodon doesn’t?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It seems to be a lightweight alternative to Mastodon that is easier for individuals to run on a private server

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Exactly that! I want to run a single-user instance, and Mastodon is quite heavy for that, especially when I'll be running it off a cheap VPS.