How Mastodon made friends with Meta
How Mastodon made friends with Meta
Founder Eugen Rochko on helping Threads federate, dodging venture capital, and why he hopes Bluesky abandons its protocol
Founder Eugen Rochko on helping Threads federate, dodging venture capital, and why he hopes Bluesky abandons its protocol
While technically true, I think calling Mastodon the smallest amongst them is a little indigenous. After all, wasn’t the idea of ActivityPub “protocols, not platforms”?
For me personally, Mastodon opened me to the world of federated social media, and I’m now hosting my own AP-based single-user social media page running GoToSocial. My usage won’t add to Mastodon’s MAU’s count, but 90% of my interactions are with Mastodon users, and I think that’s the beauty of the system.
little indigenous
I think you mean disingenuous.
I guess for now it's misleading more than anything, as they say it's the smallest of the three major federated platforms. That's hardly precise as neither Threads nor Bluesky is federated yet.
Bluesky should federate at the end of the month though, and a bridge to activitypub is already ready. Interesting times ahead.
Reminds me of the time Facebook adopted another open protocol (XMPP), got lots of people using it, and then shut down their gateways to the open network.
That was Google. Facebook did use XMPP but never advertised it.
It was both of them. I didn't mention Google because this article is about Facebook/Meta.