As Notopoulos writes, the Fediverse is a better, more user-centric social media concept than the one we currently have, where you amass followers on a single platform then lose them if that platform dies or becomes bad and you decide to quit. Federated social media means that you create an account on a server, can follow people on that server and on other servers, and can move your account to other federated platforms or servers whenever you want.
“I’ve now been using it for about two months and I am here to tell you that it is, in principle, what we should want the internet to be. If you have been remotely interested in Mastodon but had reservations about joining because you thought it would be difficult, confusing, or otherwise annoying, it is not.”
I’m not sure why so many in the media had been harping on for so long about how complicated the Fediverse was. Many have been pointing out it is no more complicated than using e-mail addresses.
It is time though for users to take back their own control over the social network that they use. I should point out though that Mastodon is only one social network within the whole Fediverse (the networks interconnecting with the ActivityPub protocol). You can join any instance (server) on any Fediverse social network, and follow/be followed from anywhere else. So, there is also nothing wrong with just joining Mastodon if you have no other preferences.
The future of social networking should not be walled gardens, but rather interconnecting with everyone else. We should never have to leave friends/family behind when we change social networks.
See https://www.404media.co/mastodon-is-the-good-one/
#technology #socialnetworks #Mastodon #interoperability
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