Founder Eugen Rochko on helping Threads federate, dodging venture capital, and why he hopes Bluesky abandons its protocol
Reminds me of the time Facebook adopted another open protocol (XMPP), got lots of people using it, and then shut down their gateways to the open network.
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.
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?
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.
fresh@lemm.ee 11 months ago
You’re absolutely right - not sure what I was thinking about when I wrote that!
sab@kbin.social 11 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.
phoneymouse@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What does GoToSocial offer that Mastodon doesn’t?
doylio@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
It seems to be a lightweight alternative to Mastodon that is easier for individuals to run on a private server