Last week, this strange mention appeared on my Mastodon feed. After a bit of clicking around, I figured out what had happened. A user on the Kbin social network had linked to my Mastodon profile. Thanks to the magic of the ActivityPub protocol, it filtered into my mentions - even though I've never even heard [...]
I’ve been on the Fediverse since 2016, and I still get a little mixed up by how things work.
That is really cool but, man, the tooling has to catch up quickly before the fediverse graduates from just “tech people” to the general public. I think the tooling will arrive but this is all so powerful/interconnected it can look scary if not managed well.
Makes sense. The blog post does highlight the openness of Federation, which is great when it’s a niche and small collection of projects. The capability is still cool and potentially useful, but as Lemmy and kbin explode with Reddit refugees, and Mastodon so large with the Twitter-nots, it’s getting busy.
I’ve already accidentally “followed” a Lemmy community from my Mastodon account, and I guess it works well enough, but the interface doesn’t quite work for the medium.
Hopefully with all the displaced app developers, the Fediverse projects will gain steam.
That is really cool but, man, the tooling has to catch up quickly before the fediverse graduates from just “tech people” to the general public. I think the tooling will arrive but this is all so powerful/interconnected it can look scary if not managed well.
Makes sense. The blog post does highlight the openness of Federation, which is great when it’s a niche and small collection of projects. The capability is still cool and potentially useful, but as Lemmy and kbin explode with Reddit refugees, and Mastodon so large with the Twitter-nots, it’s getting busy.
I’ve already accidentally “followed” a Lemmy community from my Mastodon account, and I guess it works well enough, but the interface doesn’t quite work for the medium.
Hopefully with all the displaced app developers, the Fediverse projects will gain steam.