although this is unlikely to substantially and directly impact us and is a more immediate concern for Mastodon and similar fediverse software, we’ve signed the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact as a matter of principle. that pact pledges the following:
i am an instance admin/mod on the fediverse. by signing this pact, i hereby agree to block any instances owned by meta should they pop up on the fediverse. project92 is a real and serious threat to the health and longevity of fedi and must be fought back against at every possible opportunity
the maintainer of the site is currently a little busy and seems to manually add signatures so we may not appear on there for several days but here’s a quick receipt that we did indeed sign it.
Those are still Matrix (platform) style servers.
You don’t have something like Mastodon vs Pixelfed vs Lemmy in terms of diversity of products.
Those all speak ActivityPub.
But if you want to put some weird UI to say that it’s federated (which is not necessary to be a federated service). You have Cerulean : https://matrix.org/blog/2020/12/18/introducing-cerulean/
I know they are ActiVItyPub based. I’m talking about the diversity of platforms, not which protocol they use.
What do you mean by this?
I mean that the word federated does not necessarily mean different UI. And most of the ActivityPub diversity you ascribe is just a UI change.
If the UI was what made it federated then I guess I’d be entirely possible to say Twitter is federated because they have tons of different UIs thanks to various apps.
Does this make sense?
The thing is, I never talked about UI.
Server =/= UI =/= fork =/= platform
Twitter is completely centralised because all the data is inside of a unique server and cannot interact with other social media platforms. You cannot talk to someone on tiktok through twitter.
You can federate, through the use of plug-ins, on/with Wordpress and (soon) Tumblr, but neither are decentralised, as each concentrates its data in a sole server.
I’m not really sure what you mean by platform then.
I meant social media project (and its forks). So, for example, Mastodon (+ its forks)
Matrix (protocol) doesn’t have the levels of federation and project diversity that other protocols have, it’s all Matrix (project) and its forks, servers, clients, etc. But, I mean, there are reasons for it to be like that