It isn’t that surprising but it is somewhat surprising.
Unlike X (formerly Twitter) or Facebook, which remain in business by profiting from consumers’ personal information, the fediverse aims to give users privacy and an ad-free interface.
Meta’s Threads is also working toward ActivityPub compatibility, which would significantly expand the fediverse user base.
Um… fuck no, please and thank you!
The bad news is: you can already follow accounts bidirectionally between Threads and Mastodon. The good news is: Meta did the bare minimum and seems to have stopped development.
fediverse, decentralized group of social media platforms in which each independent platform can interact freely with any other platform that is part of the group.
Great that they have an article on it, though their formatting the start of each article like a dictionary entry is a bit odd compared to Wikipedia.
If it were a Wikipedia article, it would probably need some copyediting to give it a more encyclopedic tone along with in-line citations.
Tbh I never understood the Lemmy users can interact with all other platforms that share the same protocol.
It’s not like I can view a Mastodon user’s history on Lemny, right?
Lemmy and history, no. On Lemmy you can see comments from Mastodon and posts (toot with a Lemmy community pinged inside. Which is rarely done but happens). But not the toots themselves
Piefed now allows to directly follow accounts (similar to Mastodon, Friendica, etc) and you can start getting the new toots after following an account https://piefed.zip/c/microblogsFrom mastodon viewing lemmy stuff is nice enough. It would be great if you could seamlessly crosspost and share between platforms.
It’s not like I can view a Mastodon user’s history on Lemny, right?
afaik you can
how?
ehh… just tested and it doesn’t seem to work… somehow i remembered it working but maybe i was mistaken
sorry for the misinformation
Man, that “can” is doing a fuck of a lot of heavy lifting. lemmy, piefed are 100% when you start going pixelfed or loops, or mastodon the compatibility matrix stops looking like that nice spiderweb.
you’re lucky if you can even finger a user between systems
you’re lucky if you can even finger a user between systems
I’m sure the gals at the blahaj zone are up for it
Can confirm. Finger me between systems, bby!
I recommend uBlacklist to correct this.
How is the fediverse different from traditional social media?
The fediverse is a decentralized network of social media platforms that freely interact, unlike traditional social media.
I have a bit of a problem with the term “traditional social media”.
The earliest popular form of social media was Usenet. The first one I ever used was web forums (run on phpBB or similar software). Those have a lot more “tradition” than Facebook or Twitter or TikTok, so why are they calling the latter three (deviations from the decentralized “tradition” of the Internet) “traditional social media”?! Is it just that they’re the first form of social media that the authors of that article ever used?
Those were not considered social media in their heyday as the term was created after them specifically for sites where a user would maintain a non-anonymous profile, post content about themselves and curating a feed based on other profiles followed.
Forums and Usenet could be considered proto-social-media perhaps given they were clear precursors to it
Of course. I find “social media” a suboptimal term anyway. A good term for the concept is the “participatory Internet”.
But if we are going to use it, then it’s just media that is produced by society at large as opposed to paid journalists or authors. Meaning Usenet is social media.
