Gregory's Server
Just a note saying how my #Fediverse experience has been made immeasurably richer for being able to take in and engage with carefully curated #Threads users, #BlueSky bridged users, #WordPress ActivityPub enabled blogs, Federated #Podcast episodes, #PixelFed photos, and Peertube videos. All from one Mastodon account. This works.
And I'm grateful for the moderation tools to mute, block and curate all of this, and the Mastodon lists to make them all digestable and not just info overload.
@tchambers I feel like more and more people are finally, slowly starting to "get it" that ActivityPub federation is something much bigger than an x-twitter alternative. It is a way of restoring and strengthening the interconnections of the Web which have come perilously close to dying completely.
Simultaneously I have more impatience and frustration and suspicion with #Meta and #Threads as time passes. Zuck, He of "move fast and break things" and "beg forgiveness instead of ask permission", is curiously super cautious and slow and opt-in about the whole thing, and the piecemeal rollout of unidirectional federation seems VERY telling. I really think they are trying to figure out how to minimize migration and maximize monetization before they truly federate.
Outbound-only federation is USELESS to people like me who are trying to build online communities, not just "follow our friends over there"...
@tchambers I feel like more and more people are finally, slowly starting to "get it" that ActivityPub federation is something much bigger than an x-twitter alternative. It is a way of restoring and strengthening the interconnections of the Web which have come perilously close to dying completely.
Simultaneously I have more impatience and frustration and suspicion with #Meta and #Threads as time passes. Zuck, He of "move fast and break things" and "beg forgiveness instead of ask permission", is curiously...