John ConwayNov 23, 2022

Big rumblings in the expansion of the #Fediverse have been happening recently.

#Tumblr has already promised to implement #ActivityPub (the protocol Mastodon uses), which will mean you can follow Tumblr accounts from here and vice versa. And today we a learning that #Flickr is also considering it!

This will be a massive expansion, which obviously carries some uncertainties, but I, for one, welcome our new federation partners.

This is the way the internet is supposed to work.

Show threadJohn ConwayNov 23, 2022
It might make the Fediverse bigger than Twitter!
Show threadKirill GerasimenkoNov 23, 2022
@john Elon then will tell that it was his original plan :D
Show threadFoldy

@kir @john I know you're being sarcastic, in that this is a inadvertent side effect of what Elon is doing, but one of the complaints he had about Twitter and what he wanted to do to it, in all his rambling, was open the protocol up so that presumably it would work something like this.

So his nonsense causing this to happen everywhere but Twitter is kind of funny.

Nov 24, 2022 at 4:33pmWeb
Show threadKirill GerasimenkoNov 24, 2022
@folderalconspiracy @john We need to give Elon the idea that Twitter has to implement ActivityPub and all will be sorted :)