Chris Trottier on Nostr: Three things occur when a Mastodon fanboy, who believes Mastodon is the Fediverse, ...
Three things occur when a Mastodon fanboy, who believes Mastodon is the Fediverse, encounters my Akkoma account:
crickets because they don’t notice
“Cool! The Fediverse is so much bigger than I imagined – and it’s neat that people are finding novel uses for this tech!”
“Screw you for not doing things the non-Mastodon way, and it sucks that I see you on my Mastodon timeline doing non-Mastodon things!”
Most of the time, it doesn’t matter that someone’s account isn’t a Mastodon account because on Mastodon, it looks like Mastodon.
Sometimes people see my use of Markdown and long posts and discover why ActivityPub is a big deal, and become more curious about the wider Fediverse.
But there’s the occasional person who gets incredibly pissed off that not everything on the Fediverse is done in the same uniform Mastodon way because their entire paradigm of how the Internet works is apps! apps! apps! – not protocols.
And thus, everyone who uses the Fediverse needs to understand what a protocol is, and why what often looks like Mastodon isn’t Mastodon.
crickets because they don’t notice
“Cool! The Fediverse is so much bigger than I imagined – and it’s neat that people are finding novel uses for this tech!”
“Screw you for not doing things the non-Mastodon way, and it sucks that I see you on my Mastodon timeline doing non-Mastodon things!”
Most of the time, it doesn’t matter that someone’s account isn’t a Mastodon account because on Mastodon, it looks like Mastodon.
Sometimes people see my use of Markdown and long posts and discover why ActivityPub is a big deal, and become more curious about the wider Fediverse.
But there’s the occasional person who gets incredibly pissed off that not everything on the Fediverse is done in the same uniform Mastodon way because their entire paradigm of how the Internet works is apps! apps! apps! – not protocols.
And thus, everyone who uses the Fediverse needs to understand what a protocol is, and why what often looks like Mastodon isn’t Mastodon.
quoting nevent1q…w8clChris Trottier (nprofile…rtmv) cool. We need more of this as many people need to see Masto is just part of the ActivityPub/Fedi universe not Masto == Fedi. The majority of the tech media simply doesn’t get that point.