Dave Troy Nov 19, 2022

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.

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@davetroy Mastodon could benefit from the old-school cryptography to offer stronger privacy for DMs.

It's sad that scammers have hijacked and muddled terms like "crypto(graphy)", "decentralization", and "web" for their scammy vaporware.

Nov 19, 2022 at 6:18pmWeb