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   Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 14:47:36 JST Alexandre Oliva

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   • David Buchanan
   looking cute :-)
   may I suggest a couple of small tweaks?
   Mastodon/ActivityPub comes across as more accurate to me. Mastodon is built on top of ActivityPub, not the other way round.
   the other point is "recently"; IIRC the term Fediverse was in use before Mastodon and even before ActivityPub. maybe the reference could be retained to some extent, while making it accurate, with "or as we've long taken to calling it"
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     David Buchanan (retr0id@retr0.id)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 14:47:38 JST David Buchanan

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     • David Buchanan
     I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Mastodon,
     is in fact, ActivityPub/Mastodon, or as I've recently taken to calling it, the Fediverse. Mastodon is not a social network unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning federated system made useful by the ActivityPub protocol, JSON-LD and Activity Streams.
     
     Many computer users run an implementation of the ActivityPub protocol every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the implementation of ActivityPub which is widely used today is often called "Mastodon", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically using the ActivityPub protocol, standardised by the W3C.
     
     There really is a Mastodon, and these people are using it, but it is just a
     part of the network they use. Mastodon is one implementation: the program that relays posts and other activities between other users on the network.
     Mastodon is an essential part of the fediverse, but less useful by itself; it functions best in the context of a complete federated network. Mastodon is
     normally used in combination with the rest of the federated network: the whole system is basically ActivityPub with a few extensions added, or ActivityPub/Mastodon. All the so-called "Mastodon" users are really users of ActivityPub.
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     David Buchanan (retr0id@retr0.id)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 14:47:39 JST David Buchanan
     I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Mastodon, is in fact, ActivityPub/Mastodon, or as I've recently taken to calling it, the Fediverse. Mastodon is not a social network unto itself, but rather another component of a fully functioning federated universe.
     
     #FediTips
     Alexandre Oliva and Jake Hildreth (acorn) :blacker_heart_outline: repeated this.
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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 14:49:05 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     • David Buchanan
     "essential part" also comes across as inaccurate. make it "very important part" maybe?
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     roytam1 (roytam1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 14:50:41 JST roytam1

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     • David Buchanan
     @lxo @retr0id before ActivityPub, there is OStatus.
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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 14:50:55 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     • David Buchanan
     looking cute :-)
     may I suggest a couple of small tweaks?
     Mastodon/ActivityPub comes across as more accurate to me. Mastodon is built on top of ActivityPub, not the other way round.
     the other point is "recently"; IIRC the term Fediverse was in use before Mastodon and even before ActivityPub. maybe the reference could be retained to some extent, while making it accurate, with "or as we've long taken to calling it"
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     Dr. Matt Lee ?:verified: (mattl@social.mat.tl)'s status on Thursday, 17-Nov-2022 12:26:44 JST Dr. Matt Lee ?:verified:

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     • David Buchanan

     @retr0id how do I block this?

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     Dr. Matt Lee ?:verified: (mattl@social.mat.tl)'s status on Thursday, 17-Nov-2022 12:45:25 JST Dr. Matt Lee ?:verified:

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     • David Buchanan
     • taco :blobcat_thisisfine:

     @tacoman_x86 @retr0id and how do I do that? (Baby steps plz. I’m stupid)

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     taco :blobcat_thisisfine: (tacoman_x86@freeradical.zone)'s status on Thursday, 17-Nov-2022 12:45:26 JST taco :blobcat_thisisfine:

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     • David Buchanan
     • Dr. Matt Lee ?:verified:

     @mattl @retr0id filter on “there really is a mastodon”, maybe?