The Britannica entry for the Fediverse is really good
It isn’t that surprising but it is somewhat surprising.
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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 and 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.
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.
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!
