Fediverse
The Fediverse refers to an ecosystem of decentralised social media servers that are largely interoperable with each other (that is, they federate) because they all adhere to a common ActivityPub protocol. This offers an alternative, non-commercial model for social media, as no one server is required to scale to support (and moderate) millions. Overall I find the Fediverse a much more chilled and pleasant experience than mainstream sites like Twitter.
Did you know? I also have a wiki page called ‘Fediverse’! If you want to check that out, you can do so here.
Posts
- : 🖥 Micro post: This morning I came across a new-to-me web client for Mastodon called Phanpy: https://phanpy.social/ (external …
- : 🖥 On Mastodon and Algorithms: As you’re quite likely aware, there’s currently a massive explosion going on in the number of active …
- : 🖥 So Elon Musk Bought Twitter: Just before I went to bed last night, the news broke that notoriously obnoxious billionaire Elon Musk had clinched a …
Links
- : 🖥 Link: “4 Twitter features Mastodon is better for not having” by Scott Feeney
- : 🖥 Link: “Citizens’ social media can provide an antidote to propaganda and disinformation”
- : 🖥 Link: “Bonfire’s latest trick shows Google+ circles came a decade early” by Doug Belshaw
- : 🖥 Link: “When the cosplaying dolphins met the cosplaying French philosophers” by Matt Webb
- : 🖥 Link: “What Elon Musk Can Learn From Mastodon—and What He Can’t”
- : 🖥 Link: “Mastodon’s Eugen Rochko Talks Decentralization, Blockchain, And Grifters”
Jessica Smith is a socialist and a feminist who loves animals, books, gaming, and cooking; she’s also interested in linguistics, history, technology and society.