Chris TrottierSome people say, "Mastodon is where it's at on the Fediverse."
But really, it's the opposite: the Fediverse is where it's at on Mastodon.
Without the Fediverse, Mastodon becomes CounterSocial.
Or worse, Truth Social.
What most people perceive as "the Mastodon social network" is actually the Fediverse.
However, you can use Mastodon without the Fediverse.
It's just incredibly silly to do that.
There's a problem with building apps with *only* Mastodon in mind:
1. It ignores the intended interoperability of the Fediverse
2. It gives potential back door access to unfederated (or de-federated) social networks that use Mastodon—many which would never get approved by Apple if they created their own apps
So while I understand why developers target Mastodon *first*, it's a mistake to not consider the greater Fediverse in mind.
Shoq@atomicpoet What Chris said.
karaboondi@atomicpoet it also attempts to structure the fediverse which also beats the purpose of the fediverse IMO
Mikio Braun 🪼@atomicpoet yeah, also took me a while to understand what is really ActivityPub and what is mastodon. I‘m thinking of mastodon as a social network on top of ActivityPub, it really is its own thing.
HelgeI like to think of things in layers:
HTTPs - ActivityPub - Mastodon - All these apps e.g. Ivory HTTPs - ActivityPub - Pixelfed - Other types of apps HTTPs - Twitter - Some other apps
With Https and html/javascript/css you have all kinds of issues with compatibility ... With Mastodon/Pixelfed/Peertube, and so on, you have similar issues.
Then comes Apps on top of the Mastodon layer. These of course only work the piece of layer below, they were designed for.