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Why Mozilla is betting on a decentralized social networking future (techcrunch.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@beehaw.org
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/7456748

The mission-driven tech company behind the Firefox browser, Pocket reader and other apps is now investing its energy into the so-called “fediverse” — a collection of decentralized social networking applications, like Mastodon, that communicate with one another over the ActivityPub protocol.

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[–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

My "secret" is I'm fine defederating with fb or any other larger player because nerds are all I really want to socialize with anyway. Those of us here would lose nothing by fb joining and defederating.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I get that, that was the whole point of that comment is the likes of us wouldn't want to interact with Facebook but as I said that's just an example.

    Imagine the chaos if Reddit implemented activitypub, or discord with their threads feature, or even just a new instance like world that snaps up a lot of users for one reason or another, plays it safe for a while and acts benign until they've got the bulk of the users and then starts imposing their rules on other instances

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