"#Mastodon’s current leadership is trying to move away from [#centralization at Mastodon.social].

In this newer model, the server boundary becomes a social boundary, and your experience of Mastodon is supposed to be shaped by the community you joined rather than just by who you follow across the wider network.

Instead of one network with distributed infrastructure, it is a network of networks where each node has meaningful social coherence. #Newsmast, a UK-based organization building ActivityPub infrastructure for publishers and communities, is pushing this further by creating branded apps on top of individual server #communities that combine #community feeds with a publisher’s content. The logical conclusion of their approach is one app per community, with federation as the connective tissue between them."

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Where Does Community Live?

Connected places: understanding how the new social web works

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