Hans van Zijst

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Professional nerd and grammar nazi, writes in Dutch and English. Can read some German, French and Spanish too. Learning русский.

Location:: Netherlands

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 17:26:43 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Gabe Kangas wrote the following post Tue, 25 Jul 2023 17:25:58 +0200

Your reminder that this isn't Mastodon, this is the Fediverse. And you can optionally use Mastodon, or many other pieces of fantastic software, to access the Fediverse.

Tell your friends.

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Wed, 26 Jul 2023 14:29:17 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Let's agree that there are different "definitions" of the Fediverse. After the big TwitterMigration started, some people apparently redefined it as "anything ActivityPub", whereas before it was a broad collection of similar applications.

https://fediverse.party/en/fediverse/

This site uses a different definition, it includes stuff like Diaspora* and GNUsocial. It's the one I stick to, I like the diversity.

Wed, 26 Jul 2023 14:37:53 +0200

Sacha Ligthert 🇳🇱🇬🇧

ligthert@mastodon.nl

@hans
I am not sure what to think of this. I do see both the (open source) apps and the protocol ActivityPub as the FediVerse.You make an interesting distinction.

Reflecting on this, pre-twitter it was common for people new to fedi to confuse Mastodon with Twitter, or to see Mastodon.social like a centralized behemoth like Twitter. Things like Pleroma or Misskey never really came on the radar, as all they knew was: Mastodon.

Wed, 26 Jul 2023 17:11:36 +0200

Khurram Wadee

mkwadee@diasp.eu

That's fine with me. It's only what I've heard.