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.
That depends, are you using the Native app?
Lmao
Perfect joke
Well fucking done! Had me cackling so loud I startled my cat! 😂
Nah I like the idea of Facebook finding a little island of tech nerds who worship some god call ‘ActivityPubbinus’ and proceed to whip the foreign colonialists with CAT6 cables.
Punishment includes shoving an Ethernet cable up their asses.
You’re absolutely right - not sure what I was thinking about when I wrote that!
We all make typos. Autocorrect is our common enemy.
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.
What does GoToSocial offer that Mastodon doesn’t?
It seems to be a lightweight alternative to Mastodon that is easier for individuals to run on a private server
Exactly that! I want to run a single-user instance, and Mastodon is quite heavy for that, especially when I’ll be running it off a cheap VPS.
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.
