Mastodawn

Looks like the #fediverse has champions at the Verge;

"But all of this stuff only works if there is a standard, and I’d bet $10 that ActivityPub is going to be that standard. It’s the one that’s overseen by the World Wide Web Consortium, it’s the one with the most momentum, it’s the one Threads is supposedly going to support — it’s just kind of clearly winning."

#DavidPierce, Verge editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host, 2024

https://www.theverge.com/24063290/fediverse-explained-activitypub-social-media-open-protocol

#ActivityPub

The fediverse, explained

An open protocol called ActivityPub has the potential to change the way we think about social platforms. Mastodon, Threads, Flipboard, Mozilla, and others think it’s the future.

The Verge

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Strypey Jul 6, 2024

"Federation is the idea of decentralizing and distributing something so it’s not controlled and stored in a single place."

#DavidPierce, 2024

https://www.theverge.com/24063290/fediverse-explained-activitypub-social-media-open-protocol

Hmm, not quite. In a nutshell;

* decentralisation: "not controlled and stored in a single place"

* federated: a form of decentralisation that uses servers, but you can choose which one
In contrast to...

* distributed: a form of decentralisation without servers, where all connections are from app to app (P2P/ Peer-to-Peer)

The fediverse, explained

An open protocol called ActivityPub has the potential to change the way we think about social platforms. Mastodon, Threads, Flipboard, Mozilla, and others think it’s the future.

The Verge

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Strypey Jul 6, 2024

"Beyond that… I guess the metaverse was also a big thing when people were figuring out what to call this. So we got 'fediverse'."

#DavidPierce, 2024

https://www.theverge.com/24063290/fediverse-explained-activitypub-social-media-open-protocol

Umm... no. "Metaverse" became a buzzphrase around the time FarceBook's parent company changed its name to Meta in 2021. "Fediverse" was already widely in use by early 2017;

https://web.archive.org/web/20190617225539/https://www.coactivate.org/projects/disintermedia/blog/2017/04/01/a-brief-history-of-the-gnu-social-fediverse-and-the-federation

The fediverse, explained

An open protocol called ActivityPub has the potential to change the way we think about social platforms. Mastodon, Threads, Flipboard, Mozilla, and others think it’s the future.

The Verge

Show thread

Jim Jul 6, 2024

@strypey Tech journalists...