FediTips has moved!Nov 22, 2022

If you're just getting started on here, you may be wondering why this place has so many servers and apps. Why make it so complicated?

Click here to find out why:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/mastodon-and-the-fediverse-beginners-start-here/#whyisthefediverseonsomanyseparateservers

Twitter is all on one server (twitter.com). This made it VERY easy for Musk to buy it. Any centralised network can be bought out just like this.

The Fediverse is different: as long as we stay spread out on many servers, no one will ever be able to buy this network, not even the richest person in the world.

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@feditips People, including me, are confused by the results when we search for someone on Twitter who may not have supplied a complete enough address. We are seeing instances like @twtr.plus, beta.mstdn.cf, birdsite.wilde.cloude, birdsite.thorlaksson.com, etc and assuming they represent stolen identities, esp. of more well-known people. I'm guessing they aren't, but not sure where to go for an explanation. It's causing some to avoid creating Mastodon accounts.
Nov 23, 2022 at 5:30amWeb