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Founder Eugen Rochko on helping Threads federate, dodging venture capital, and why he hopes Bluesky abandons its protocol

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[–] fresh@lemm.ee 51 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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 98 points 1 year ago (3 children)

little indigenous

I think you mean disingenuous.

[–] alpha_dog@lemmy.world 118 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That depends, are you using the Native app?

[–] Quicky@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Perfect joke

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Well fucking done! Had me cackling so loud I startled my cat! 😂

[–] Dasnap@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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 colonialists with CAT6 cables.

[–] ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Punishment includes shoving an Ethernet cable up their asses.

[–] fresh@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're absolutely right - not sure what I was thinking about when I wrote that!

[–] ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

We all make typos. Autocorrect is our common enemy.

[–] sab@kbin.social 7 points 1 year 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 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What does GoToSocial offer that Mastodon doesn’t?

[–] doylio@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It seems to be a lightweight alternative to Mastodon that is easier for individuals to run on a private server

[–] fresh@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year 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.

[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That was Google. Facebook did use XMPP but never advertised it.

[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It was both of them. I didn't mention Google because this article is about Facebook/Meta.