Comment on How Mastodon made friends with Meta
fresh@lemm.ee 11 months ago
While technically true, I think calling Mastodon the smallest amongst them is a little indigenous. After all, wasn’t the idea of ActivityPub “protocols, not platforms”?
For me personally, Mastodon opened me to the world of federated social media, and I’m now hosting my own AP-based single-user social media page running GoToSocial. My usage won’t add to Mastodon’s MAU’s count, but 90% of my interactions are with Mastodon users, and I think that’s the beauty of the system.
I guess for now it's misleading more than anything, as they say it's the smallest of the three major federated platforms. That's hardly precise as neither Threads nor Bluesky is federated yet.
Bluesky should federate at the end of the month though, and a bridge to activitypub is already ready. Interesting times ahead.
What does GoToSocial offer that Mastodon doesn’t?
It seems to be a lightweight alternative to Mastodon that is easier for individuals to run on a private server
Exactly that! I want to run a single-user instance, and Mastodon is quite heavy for that, especially when I’ll be running it off a cheap VPS.
ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think you mean disingenuous.
alpha_dog@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That depends, are you using the Native app?
ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Lmao
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well fucking done! Had me cackling so loud I startled my cat! 😂
Quicky@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Perfect joke
Dasnap@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Nah I like the idea of Facebook finding a little island of tech nerds who worship some god call ‘ActivityPubbinus’ and proceed to whip the foreign invaders with CAT6 cables.
ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Punishment includes shoving an Ethernet cable up their asses.
Deceptichum@kbin.social 11 months ago
Cato’6 tails.
fresh@lemm.ee 11 months ago
You’re absolutely right - not sure what I was thinking about when I wrote that!
ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
We all make typos. Autocorrect is our common enemy.