Nick @ The Linux ExperimentWatching the crazy right wing extremists trying to tell me that Mastodon has been built to “save the blue checkmarks from Elon’s Twitter so they can keep hating free speech in their own bubble” is hilarious.
James@thelinuxEXP in lighter news, your video inspired me to start using mastodon and spin up my own instance! I also made a pixelfed instance and peertube instance in case i ever wanna make content. Just out of curiosity, are you familiar with Matrix, and was there a reason it was left out of the upload?
@jame I have a matrix server for the channel, but I chose to talk about equivalents to the more “usual” social networks, there wasn’t enough time to mention everything :)
ImNootingHere@thelinuxEXP @jame Is matrix also part of the fediverse ? If so i’m really impressed!
@NootNoot @thelinuxEXP It's my understanding that it *kind of* is. Matrix instances can talk to other Matrix instances, making it federated. However they can only communicate amongst themselves unless you set up some sort of puppeting bridge for other services
calc.exe@jame @NootNoot @thelinuxEXP Matrix, while a federated service, is NOT part of the Fediverse because it cannot communicate on ActivityPub/Zot/OSatus/etc. It's still my go-to messenger, and popular among fedi users, but just because something is federated doesn't mean it's on the Fediverse.
Lightning Bjornsson* 
@thatonecalculator @thelinuxEXP @jame @NootNoot "the fediverse" is a word that needs to die. it is an appropriation of the concept of federated systems to apply to just one federated system.
@[email protected] @thelinuxEXP @jame @NootNoot What "appropriation"? The creators of OStatus and ActivityPub endorse the use of the word Fediverse, and it's a lot more palatable than "Nodes interconnected by AcitityPub and supporting protocols"
@thatonecalculator @thelinuxEXP @lightning @NootNoot ive been on the platform for less than 24 hours and im already witnessing a flamewar.
internet gods why have you forsaken me
Mg. Gamer 
@jame jame my fellow compatriot, you don't even know the half of what could possibly go on the fediverse. have you ever heard of a "hellthread"?
@gamer i dont think i want to know gamer, im but a wee lad