Just got a comment from a fellow chastising me for talking about the Fediverse beyond Mastodon.
He thinks we’re dropping the ball on Twitter migration by not focusing 100% on Mastodon.
However, 30% of the Fediverse doesn’t run on Mastodon.
Some server software, like Friendica, was on the Fediverse 6 years before Mastodon was created.
Sorry we’re not shutting things down just because Twitter migrants recently showed up.
But seriously, focusing 100% on Mastodon is an intrinsically bad idea.
For one thing, if everyone depends on one thing, we become a monoculture—which becomes a vector for re-centralization.
You need diverse server software, front-ends, and clients to develop a healthy Fediverse ecosystem.
Diversity is good!
@atomicpoet mastodon is so much of the fediverse a court might break it up under anti-monopoly laws. 🫢 seriously I think 70% is way to high and there should be primarily investment in other AP tools and apps.
Would they take in to account the fact that we are decentralised, the protocol is for communication between instances (If I understand it). People are free to set up fediverse instances that don't federate widely.
I do agree we need to push the general fedi more, but we are getting there.
