Simon Müller :neofox_flag_trans:

I’m an 18-year-old tech lover from Germany who values privacy and adores cats. Probably Has ADHD and is probably autistic.

#Trans :spinny_fox_trans:​ / #NonBinary :spinny_fox_nb:

Things I boost don’t necessarily have to be things I agree with. They can just be things I want people to see.

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Cake day: January 20th, 2024

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  • @solrize

    Well, let me go by example: The strength of E-Mail lies in the fact that its a robust standard that, instead of siloing users into their platforms, brings people together into one single userbase.

    Similarly with federation in social media, this makes userbases not compete but collaborate. If I created an ActivityPub-Powered project right now, I’d have to convince nobody to use it and still be part of a community.

    One difference however is that social media is public. As the person that runs the server, you do have to put in some measures to make sure that your users are actually feeling safe. The most extreme of these measures is defederation, where you just completely cut off another server, but there’s also other ways to limit other servers, like for example, hiding their accounts by default in say the “federated” feed in Mastodon and co.




  • @solrize

    The fact that you’re not even noticing the federation shows how effective it is ;)

    You’re probably browsing communities that aren’t on Lemmy.world often without realising, I’m here replying to you from wetdry.world (a mastodon instance), and the OP also doesn’t come from Lemmy.world

    The cool thing about this is that no single server, company, or entity in general gets to decide over the wider fediverse, because everything is spread out and shared between thousands of independent servers. This is completely opposite to what traditional social media services have built.







  • @Benjamin its basically automatic e-mail in the sense that it doesn’t matter what e-mail provider you’re on but you can still contact each other across mail providers

    Here you can substitute mail providers with social media platforms, and it happens ✨automagically✨, without anyone doing anything

    To put this into perspective, I see hundreds of posts that aren’t by people that signed up on wetdry.world on my home feed, and I can still interact with them, yet wetdry.world is my home.

    Maybe the little explanation video on https://fediverse.info helps