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.

Show threadDave Troy Nov 19, 2022
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.
Show threadTomSeppertNov 20, 2022
@davetroy
So are you saying that cryptography an decentralized systems existed before current crypto hype?
Amazing! 😜 🤡
Show threadNatanael ⚠️
@TomSeppert @davetroy some of those people keeps forgetting that the crypto in cryptocurrency means cryptography. We've been around for quite a while.
Nov 22, 2022 at 11:37amWeb