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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

A kind observation that exclusively calling this place "Mastodon" has a bit similar energy as saying "I just sent a GMail."

"Fediverse" (or "fedi") is a more inclusive, general term.

Mastodon is just one of many software projects that talk to each other to create this multi-instance social network:
axbom.com/fediverse/

(kudos to @axbom for this fantastic infographic!)

There are blogs, Reddit-like communities, video instances and many more, all part of fedi.

A large tree grows from a green platform labeled “ActivityPub + more”. ActivityPub is a protocol for communicating between different applications in the Fediverse. The trunk of the tree is labeled Fediverse, to indicate that all the applications within the tree crown are part of the Fediverse. The crown is made up of circles that intersect with each other. Circle 1: Multimedia (streaming, video, photos, podcasting, images, files). Apps: Downcast, PeerTube, Pixelfed, Castopod and Nextcloud. Circe 2: Networking. Apps: Friendica, Mastodon, Misskey, Pleroma, Diaspora, GnuSocial, Hubzilla, Socialhome, kbin and Lemmy. Circle 3: Music. Apps: Funkwhale. Circle 4: Books. Apps: Bookwyrm. Circle 5: Writing. Apps: Write Freely, Plume, Drupal (via plugins) and Wordpress (via plugins). Circle 6: Events. Apps: Mobilizon and Bonfire. Growing out of the trunk is a separate branch labeled “Paid services”. Apps here are micro.blog and write.as. Off to the right are 3 small trees, one rooted in diaspora protocol, one in the OStatus protocol, and one in the Zot protocol. The two applications Hubzilla and Friendica connect with Diaspora and OStatus using dotted lines. Socialhome connects to Diaspora. GnuSocial connects to OStatus. Hubzilla connects to Zot. Off to the left are two small trees, one with its roots in the Matrix protocol and the other with its roots in the XMPP protocol.
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Joe Spivey

@rysiek @axbom I don't see most users caring about this distinction, or changing terminology.

On the plus side, it means you get to recycle this post every few months for the foreseeable future

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

@joetrev yay! recycling! ♻️

Seriously though, it's more about giving context that other compatible services exist, the language is kind of just a hook.

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AutisticTeacherGriff

@rysiek @joetrev @axbom

@rysiek, a question: why is it so important to you to point out all of these other services to people who just came here for the microblogging?

Is it just that you feel it's interesting? Is it that you think everyone should find it important? Do you recognize not everyone will find it important?

To me, at least, it feels like you're insisting we have to find that the most important thing - and to me, it isn't and never will be.

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It's just confusing, the fact that people call everything here Mastodon. It's fedi. Fediverse.
Just as people called every phone iphone or every email gmail or every car mercedes, etc., it would be also confusing.
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Heather 💾

@axbom @joetrev @TeacherGriff @rysiek It's as important to them as it is that you keep posting variations of this under every reply of his 😉

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