For those wondering, Mastodon contains no “web3” or crypto technology, and significantly predates any of that. The technology deployed here is primarily ActivityPub, which has roots in tech like RSS and PubSubHubbub.

It is noteworthy that “web3” designs are absent from the Twitter emigration discussion; that’s because it’s a scam and not fit for purpose.

The minute people start talking about adding crypto to the fediverse, run. That’s not what this is about and violates its spirit and design.

And to be clear, for anyone to whom it is not patently obvious, I’m talking about “crypto” as in cryptocurrency, not standard cryptological encryption which is widely used to secure HTTPs connections. That’s standard web technology, and best practice.
@davetroy The servers do run on tulips and beanie babies though right?

@3fecta

@davetroy

*slams pogs on the table*

Finally, my collections are valuable