flabberghaster wrote on June 21, 2023 at 5:57 AM

Reply to comment by neku in De-federating P92 by Seirdy

If there's any point at all it seems to me like Embrace Extend Extinguish, or like what the big firms did with XMPP. Get involved to kill off a rival.

neku wrote on June 21, 2023 at 6:04 AM

sure but why would fb see mastodon as a rival? surely itd be better to spin up some take on twitter or something to capitalise on a dying platform rather than try and colonise a community of almost uniformly anti-facebook users

voxpoplar wrote on June 21, 2023 at 8:37 AM

I think it is an attempt to take on twitter, just jumping on the federation idea to sound fancy and innovative.

neku wrote on June 21, 2023 at 10:31 AM

i dont use the federation stuff but i forgot that it was a twitter derivative and not just like, forums or whatever. i hope they continue to use "toot" as the name for their posts and the whole platform fails because of only that

hollyhoppet wrote on June 22, 2023 at 4:02 AM

regrettably the person that owns mastodon has changed the name in all application literature and interface to just "post," citing "toot" as being too unprofessional. he's basically gone full techbro. even calls himself "CEO of Mastodon" which while technically true since the software is owned by the non-profit company Mastodon gGmbH... like lmao. additionally, over the years he's gotten real vocal about basically not really caring about users with privacy, security, or accessibility concerns. it's been a real weird heel turn to see

neku wrote on June 22, 2023 at 4:32 AM

maybe if you're an open source development guy for long enough eventually you become an Open Source Development Guy

flabberghaster wrote on June 21, 2023 at 5:59 PM

It's a social network that people could move to and not be on Facebook. Pixelfed is a fediverse photo sharing thing, a direct competitor (well sort of) to Instagram.

It's also got a lot of prior art on the underlying protocol so they can save money on inventing their own back end.

It also has a preexisting userbase, so even if most people fediblock it they still have some network effects and don't have yo stand it up from nothing.

Lots of reasons.