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fresh@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

little indigenous

I think you mean disingenuous.

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- alpha_dog@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That depends, are you using the Native app?
  
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  - ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Lmao
    
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  - Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Well fucking done! Had me cackling so loud I startled my cat! 😂
    
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  - Quicky@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Perfect joke
    
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- Dasnap@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.
  
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  - ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Punishment includes shoving an Ethernet cable up their asses.
    
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  - Deceptichum@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Cato’6 tails.
    
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- fresh@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You’re absolutely right - not sure what I was thinking about when I wrote that!
  
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  - ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    We all make typos. Autocorrect is our common enemy.
    
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sab@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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.

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phoneymouse@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
What does GoToSocial offer that Mastodon doesn’t?

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- doylio@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It seems to be a lightweight alternative to Mastodon that is easier for individuals to run on a private server
  
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  - fresh@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    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.
    
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