Jer Warren on Nostr: "There is no Fediverse, only Mastodon" is a take that infuriates me because it just ...
"There is no Fediverse, only Mastodon" is a take that infuriates me because it just isn't true.
What is true is that a lot of the non-Mastodon Fediverse has had to support Mastodon conventions that weren't defined by ActivityPub, but that doesn't mean that they don't exist. If Mastodon died tomorrow, all those other parts of the Fediverse still exist, function and get used by people.
People get hung up on the "GNU/Linux" comparison, but it's not as apt as they think it is.
What is true is that a lot of the non-Mastodon Fediverse has had to support Mastodon conventions that weren't defined by ActivityPub, but that doesn't mean that they don't exist. If Mastodon died tomorrow, all those other parts of the Fediverse still exist, function and get used by people.
People get hung up on the "GNU/Linux" comparison, but it's not as apt as they think it is.