9 months ago
jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu
Idea: Short posts that tell Mastodon users how Hubzilla is not just like Mastodon; CW: long (well over 1,100 characters), Fediverse meta, non-Mastodon Fediverse meta
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@jupiter_rowland

> Everyone else who talks about the non-Mastodon Fediverse isn't on Mastodon.

Not really. πŸ€ͺ I'm on a Mastodon-powered instance.

I used to run a #Philippines #Friendica server. (It was the second #fediverse instance for the Philippines. The first was running Friendika managed by students.)

Then I ran my own #Hubzilla (family & friends). And used to manage the community for an #ASEAN Hubzilla instance (sadly, the sponsor and admin disappeared).

Today, I'm staying away from the backend management. I no longer have the resources to dedicate to it. So, I just search for instances with ***sane*** set up (like not abusing site-level blocks because someone told them to).

"True Fediverse citizens" (for lack of a better label) do exist on Mastodon-powered platforms. There are plenty of others beside me. πŸ˜ƒ
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9 months ago
jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu
@Yohan Yuki Xieγ†μ‚¬μš”ν•œγƒ»θ¬ι›ͺ矒
Also, the reasoning "not in ActivityPub" is well, Mastodon is as guilty of that since the discussions of AP started. Since Mastodon was successful in positioning itself at the proper place, everyone ended up / was forced to implement Mastodon-only stuff just so their software will be interoperable with it, even though it isn't part of ActivityPub.

It seems like the loudest voices on Mastodon are amongst those who don't know anything about ActivityPub and the Fediverse even though they think and claim they do.

A lot of what comes from them is based on the assumption that the Fediverse started with Mastodon, Eugen Rochko invented ActivityPub as the base protocol for Mastodon, and therefore, Mastodon is 100% fully ActivityPub-compliant because Mastodon itself is the very definition of ActivityPub and the gold standard of ActivityPub. Some even seem convinced that all this happened in spring of 2022 because they hadn't heard of Mastodon before then.

Well, and everything that doesn't work perfectly with Mastodon and/or doesn't support all features that Mastodon has the Mastodon way, as well as everything that has features that go beyond Mastodon, is not ActivityPub-compliant and therefore broken.

A while ago, someone absolutely unironically and seriously tried to convince me that Mastodon is the only "feature-complete" Fediverse project. I was about to rattle down a list of Hubzilla features and ask him whether Mastodon has them. Unfortunately, I couldn't demonstrate them to him because that was in Mastodon 3 days when Mastodon users couldn't even see text formatting.

It's nigh-impossible to convince the hard fans and purists of the truth.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Mastodon #ActivityPub
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