What you're referring to as #Mastodon is in fact the #Fediverse. You see, Mastodon is just one of many possible software projects that interact with the wider Fediverse through a protocol called #ActivityPub. There are many other projects you can use, Mastodon isn't the only one, nor was it the first. Pretending it is either of those things is doing a huge disservice to all the people who made the Fediverse what it is.
Linus even agrees with rms on his point; "Sadly, a kernel by itself gets you nowhere. To get a working system you need a shell, compilers, a library etc." - Linux Torvalds but is more recently happy to accept all the credit for what GNU did and also accepts >1 million $ a year from the Linux foundation to assist that group of criminal companies with infringing the GPLv2 by pledging not to sue.
If you can come up with any legitimate reason as to why GNU/Linux should be called "Linux", I'll take it into consideration (don't even try going for consensus, as in the past it was a consensus in many countries that the Earth was flat, but as you know, the popularity of an error doesn't make it the truth).
@cloudguy@mastodon.terabyte-computing.com@montanero@sueden.social He's posting quite actively on Fedi. I've met him once in person and I helped out with the pro-RMS campaign when he was being slandered. He's been a nice and principled guy. I fear for the future of the FSF if they can't find someone who is as principled as him to replace him once he does truly pass the torch.Including him singing me happy birthday to an audience of 500 peopleThat's pretty sweet tbh
What you're referring to as #Mastodon is in fact the #Fediverse. You see, Mastodon is just one of many possible software projects that interact with the wider Fediverse through a protocol called #ActivityPub. There are many other projects you can use, Mastodon isn't the only one, nor was it the first. Pretending it is either of those things is doing a huge disservice to all the people who made the Fediverse what it is. Originally, the protocol in use was OStatus and GNU Social was one of the first convenient instances - Mastodon came much later and ended up doing a huge disservice to the Fediverse by intentionally removing support for OStatus abruptly even though the warriors of GNU noted ActivityPub would be implemented within 3-4 months. Thus, the warriors of GNU were not amused by the intentional segregation of the network and the GNU+Jihad on the Fediverse was born - the warriors are interjecting to this day, despite how many people call it "Mastodon" by mistake.