Chris TrottierDec 2, 2022

There's misinformation floating around about Mastodon. Clarifying things:

1. Mastodon doesn't rely on volunteers. It's a registered non-profit that employs people. Kind of like how Wikipedia and Mozilla are non-profits that employs people.
2. Many instances are run by volunteers but not all.
3. Mastodon is just one part of the Fediverse. Benefits of decentralization is that anyone can build on open protocols.
4. Mastodon is big, but Flickr and Tumbler are bigger -- they're joining the Fediverse

Show threadhopeless wandererDec 3, 2022

@atomicpoet tumblr is adding mastodon interoperability?

Holy shit, that might be a straight up turning point for this network

Show threadChris TrottierDec 3, 2022

@revolcom Correction: Tumblr is adding support for ActivityPub, which presumably will interoperate with Mastodon.

Mastodon is one part of the Fediverse.

Show threadhopeless wandererDec 3, 2022

@atomicpoet well yeah, was simply using shorthands.

But would that make tumblr one giant "corporate" mastodon server? Because if mastodon wants to thrive it will need a big ass server that could handle all the normies

Show threadSteve White
@revolcom @atomicpoet I think we are more likely to see ISPs running instances. Like email. If I were running an ISP I'd sure run one.
Dec 3, 2022 at 2:09amWeb