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.

      • Retronautickz ( retronautickz@beehaw.org ) English
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        3 years ago

        I know they are ActiVItyPub based. I’m talking about the diversity of platforms, not which protocol they use.

        that it’s federated (which is not necessary to be a federated service).

        What do you mean by this?

        • Lionir [he/him] ( Lionir@beehaw.org ) English
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          3 years ago

          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?

          • Retronautickz ( retronautickz@beehaw.org ) English
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            3 years ago

            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.