Chris Trottier
I don't think it's wrong for other Fediverse projects, besides Mastodon, to exist.
Especially since so many of them predate Mastodon.
#Misskey, which is what #Calckey is based off, predates Mastodon by two years!
Friendica started in 2010.
GNU Social is even older.
And people forget that Mastodon itself is a fork!
It's wild to me that so many folks believe Mastodon = Fediverse.
Chris Trottier
I'm like a broken record at this point.
I keep saying the same thing because some random guy who's never read my posts before is like, "I don't think it right for other Fediverse projects to exist. That causes bifurcation that hurts adoption of the Fediverse."
The whole point of ActivityPub is interoperability.
Without purposeful interoperability, Mastodon is just Diaspora all over again.
What's Diaspora? Exactly!
Chris Trottier
@strangefreeworld Diaspora has no traction because they refused to interop with other apps.
Mastodon interops with other apps, that's why it's replaced Diaspora as the leading Fediverse platform.
Strangefreeworld
@atomicpoet I remember hearing about Diaspora, *maybe* something like that could get a little more traction today
Chris Trottier
People are really looking at the Fediverse with Western eyes and aren't considering the fact that in Japan, #Misskey is many peoples' first exposure to the Fediverse.
#Calckey is building on what Misskey has already made. But really, Calckey is exposing the West to the world of *key apps.
Chris Trottier
@juliewebgirl Yeah, that's definitely part of the problem.
Julie Webgirl
I'm guessing their from the US? Because the US = the World. Right??
Chris Trottier
There's probably some guy in Japan who's currently thinking, "What's Mastodon? Looks like a rip-off of Misskey. Those people should stop the bifurcation of the Fediverse and start adopting Misskey."
And you know what? I wouldn't blame him!
For many people the *key apps are the Fediverse!
Chris Trottier
I just re-posted the previous post to misskey.io.
Immediately, the emoji reactions are hilarious.
You got to love #Misskey.
nus
@atomicpoet I think it would be basically immoral if other fediverse projects did NOT exist.
Even if Mastodon itself was steered by a committee and not just one person, I would think the same thing
Chris J. Karr
@atomicpoet That's some Highlander-esque zero-sum thinking from Random Guy! Too much Platform Thinking, and not enough looking-ahead Protocol Thinking.
What gets me excited about all of this are not the Mastodons, *keys, Pixelfeds, etc., but instead the idea of augmenting existing sites with ActivityPub - such as my own @freshcomics - so that when I put new releases up, that release data shows up on the feeds of folks subscribed to the hash tag for a series or a favorite creator.
Adam
@atomicpoet
But what if 3 users went to Mastodon, Calckey, and Friendica and were all able to talk to each other? What then?!
Surely the fediverse would be doomed!
jrm4
I'm sorry, too many people on Mastodon are like "I like a small closed community"
and I'm like
you're *literally* doing it wrong. that's NOT what this was built for. please stop pushing this idea and get out of the way, the use case is TOO IMPORTANT
Chris Trottier
@jrm4 Sorry, I'm trying to understand the context here. I'm talking about the Fediverse *outside* Mastodon.
In particular, the *key apps.
How are the *key apps "wrong"?
Alexander K.
@atomicpoet I'm rather a novice at all of this, and that actually makes pretty good sense to me if the goal is to let people communicate using whatever platform works the way they like best.
I'm sure there's tons of nuance I'm missing, but on a basic level that just sounds like a cool and admirable thing to me, I guess.
jrm4
oh i missed your context.
Yes sure, do ALL the apps.
I got NO problem with people being like "I'm not on mastodon i'm on *key*"
Whatever gets activitypub (or something like activitypub) to be the thing!
Chris Trottier
@jrm4 I appreciate your response as well as all the work you do.
Eugen Rochko
@atomicpoet Mastodon is not a fork, where did you get that?
Luis Carlos
@Gargron @atomicpoet You've missed my message
Luis Carlos
@Gargron @atomicpoet I agree with my dear fediversal president there. Where did you get that? Chars, best friend of mine, give me a source or I'll call you a megalovaniac
flexghost.
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