The Fediverse, Explained: Mastodon, Threads, and the Open Future of Social Networking - The Verge
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- Author: theverge.com
- Full Title: The Fediverse, Explained: Mastodon, Threads, and the Open Future of Social Networking - The Verge
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- Summary: The fediverse is an interconnected social platform ecosystem using an open protocol called ActivityPub. It allows users to move their content and followers between different networks easily. Various apps in the fediverse, like Mastodon and Pixelfed, aim to create a more open and interconnected social networking experience.
- URL: https://www.theverge.com/24063290/fediverse-explained-activitypub-social-media-open-protocol
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So what is the fediverse? (View Highlight)
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The fediverse is as if you took X, TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook and made them all interoperable so you could post anything from anywhere, and all your followers would be guaranteed to see it. And if you wanted to leave one platform for another, you could bring all your content, all your followers, all your everything with you. (View Highlight)
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It’s actually lots of new social networks! A bunch in the fediverse already exist, and lots more are coming. But the interconnection is the thing: instead of having all your Facebook stuff on Facebook and all your X stuff on X, the fediverse allows them to interoperate. That’s really the big shift here. (View Highlight)
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it’s all based on a decades-old idea about how the internet should work and a protocol that has existed in some form since 2014 or so. (View Highlight)
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