Founder Eugen Rochko on helping Threads federate, dodging venture capital, and why he hopes Bluesky abandons its protocol

Founder Eugen Rochko on helping Threads federate, dodging venture capital, and why he hopes Bluesky abandons its protocol

  • fresh@lemm.eeEnglish
    51·
    10 months ago

    While technically true, I think calling Mastodon the smallest amongst them is a little indigenous. After all, wasn’t the idea of ActivityPub “protocols, not platforms”?

    For me personally, Mastodon opened me to the world of federated social media, and I’m now hosting my own AP-based single-user social media page running GoToSocial. My usage won’t add to Mastodon’s MAU’s count, but 90% of my interactions are with Mastodon users, and I think that’s the beauty of the system.

    • sab@kbin.social
      7·
      10 months ago

      I guess for now it’s misleading more than anything, as they say it’s the smallest of the three major federated platforms. That’s hardly precise as neither Threads nor Bluesky is federated yet.

      Bluesky should federate at the end of the month though, and a bridge to activitypub is already ready. Interesting times ahead.

      • doylioEnglish
        6·
        10 months ago

        It seems to be a lightweight alternative to Mastodon that is easier for individuals to run on a private server

        • fresh@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          Exactly that! I want to run a single-user instance, and Mastodon is quite heavy for that, especially when I’ll be running it off a cheap VPS.

  • mox@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    7·
    10 months ago

    Reminds me of the time Facebook adopted another open protocol (XMPP), got lots of people using it, and then shut down their gateways to the open network.