Do people on Twitter actually believe this shit?
Mastodon isn't one website.
It's just software that lets you send messages to the Fediverse.
Banning the Fediverse is like banning the web.
Actually, it's *exactly* like banning the web since ActivityPub is a W3C-backed web spec.
Maybe Elon Musk will ban Web 2.0 websites next -- since they use JavaScript, and JavaScript is used to track the whereabouts of his jet.
That makes about as much sense as banning ActivityPub.
Banning the Fediverse is the equivalent of killing your social network's future.
As in, this is the literal future of social media.
Mastodon itself just validates that this is where social media is going next.
Most future social networks will probably use ActivityPub -- and if they don't, they're kneecapping their network effect.
If Big Social doesn't get the memo about the Fediverse soon, they're as good as dead.
Chris Trottier
Stefanie Jane ðŸŒ