This is the best summary I could come up with:
It’s an interconnected social platform ecosystem based on an open protocol called ActivityPub, which allows you to port your content, data, and follower graph between networks.
You know how everyone online is like, “Give me your email, it’s the only stable thing on the web, and so it’s the most important tool for building a lasting audience” now?
And the places where you connect with your friends, or make a living as a creator, couldn’t be irrevocably destroyed by a billionaire with a sink and a bunch of weird ideas about financial products?
The ActivityPub protocol I mentioned a minute ago is a little like email: it has specifications for senders and receivers and supports lots of different kinds of content.
You can always have different accounts for different things, but I think many people will end up having one main identity — your Threads username, or your Mastodon handle, or even a domain you hook up to all of these services individually — that ports across all of these systems.
A lot of folks I’ve talked to say that, basically, if we’d built social media like this 20 years ago, the world would be better and smarter and we’d all be richer and better-looking.
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killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 9 months ago
NO. NO, NO, NO.
That isn’t what it fucking is at all! It’s not another open standard for five companies to abuse until they’re the only sound that you can hear because they’re drowning everything out.
I know they’re trying to appeal to the layman but, I dunno, try harder maybe?
Not everything in life is about posturing and followers. The best parts of the fediverse are anonymous and unadulterated by corporate interests and having advertising rammed down your throat every 5 seconds. that’s what killed the open web.
imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Totally agree with what you’re saying, but I still think what they said is more appealing to the layman, even if it’s an oversimplification. It’s a publicity piece on the fediverse, the only goal is to get people in the door and then they’ll figure out for themselves if they belong here.
Btw a lot of discussion already happened on the original post, this crosspost was kinda unnecessary imo