ML2 @mathlover@social.cleverlibre.org

The Fediverse is really different some the established social medias like twitter.

Twitter is basically all about people trying to promote themselves, promote their brand or similar.

Fediverse is not about that - it is really about community, and the amount of people supporting each other emotionally, finance or just being a great person towards each other.

There is no such place that can compare to this, take care of it and each other

Before joining Mastodon had you participated or were active on BBS (dial-up) or forums (vBulletin style) in the past?

Boosts are appreciated for better sample sizes.

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Did you know that the FSF has a PeerTube account? #PeerTube is a decentralized, federated video platform powered by ActivityPub and WebTorrent, and you'll find us on the Framatube instance: https://u.fsf.org/36m

Repeat after me:
The #fediverse — a/k/a The #Federation — is more than #Mastodon!

fediverse.party

#introduction
Hi! I'm Vale, a PhD student in particle #physics, working on developing detectors for #neutrino and search for #darkmatter experiments. I'm in my last phd year so in the following months i'll probably ramble and complain about my thesis a lot.
In my free time I enjoy playing #videogames, watching #anime and reading #SciFi and #fantasy books.
I also play pitcher for a local amateur #softball team.
I speak fluently english and italian, and know a bit of spanish, russian and japanese.

#introduction
Just joined looking for an alternative to the other social media sites. Screw the narcissistic billionaires.
I like #tech #STEM #space #hockey among other things. And I'll occasionally post about #mentalhealth as that's important to me.
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@atomicpoet The point about losing a profile when changing servers is valid, but:

- The problem has in fact been solved already in a different Fediverse project ( https://zotlabs.org/page/zot/specs+zot6+home ), but the implementations for various reason have seen less adoption than ActivityPub/LitePub implementations

- The other example they cite (email) for the same problem already points out the reason why people generally don't have much of an issue dealing with this problem: They are used to it.

@rysiek That thing has a big ton of resources and nothing to show for it. It's vaporware pure and simple.

Meanwhile, look at what @Gargron and @dansup have been able to do with their projects.

Just a reminder that Twitter perceives the Fediverse as a threat, and their project Blue Sky is actively spreading FUD about ActivityPub on their website. https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/3-6-2022-a-self-authenticating-social-protocol

Since this blog post was released, I've seen blue checks repeat these talking points.

I've seen them write, "The Fediverse could disappear tomorrow!"—as if one site has more persistence than thousands.

Or that if one instance crashes, the whole Fediverse follows.

It's all FUD, of course—a way to keep people on Twitter.

@mathlover It's generally how Enterprise software works. The likes of IBM or Carnegie Mellon or the New York Times doesn't trust anything unless they can pay a $100,000 license for it. In their minds, if they're no money exchanging hands, the service will disappear in a year.

This is actually something Blue Sky brings up when they throw FUD at the Fediverse: Don't trust Mastodon, instances can disappear—but we have scale!