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   Marco Rogers (polotek@social.polotek.net)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 13:02:48 JST Marco Rogers

   The fediverse is not one thing. It's not synonymous with mastodon or ActivityPub. What defines the fediverse is having both tools and norms around compatibility and interoperability. You have your servers that you control, I have my servers that I control. But we can still choose to communicate with each other without entirely giving up that control.

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     Marco Rogers (polotek@social.polotek.net)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 13:02:14 JST Marco Rogers

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     Another really important thing to understand is that the fediverse does not mean "no companies allowed". I think many people have been giving that impression. Corporate entities are entirely capable of running their servers that interoperate with the fediverse. Many are doing so right now. Nobody can stop them. Just like they can't stop you from running yours. That's sort of the point.

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     Marco Rogers (polotek@social.polotek.net)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 13:02:34 JST Marco Rogers

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     By contrast, with twitter or Facebook, you can't run your own servers. And if you did, it wouldn't work. Because centralized services will not interoperate with servers they don't control. They also have protections that say you can't run a server that pretends to be compatible. If you're speaking their language, it's because you are under their control. Otherwise you're not invited.

     Tim Chambers repeated this.