I’ve been on the Fediverse since 2016, and I still get a little mixed up by how things work.

  • nnewton@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    That is really cool but, man, the tooling has to catch up quickly before the fediverse graduates from just “tech people” to the general public. I think the tooling will arrive but this is all so powerful/interconnected it can look scary if not managed well.

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      1 year ago

      Makes sense. The blog post does highlight the openness of Federation, which is great when it’s a niche and small collection of projects. The capability is still cool and potentially useful, but as Lemmy and kbin explode with Reddit refugees, and Mastodon so large with the Twitter-nots, it’s getting busy.

      I’ve already accidentally “followed” a Lemmy community from my Mastodon account, and I guess it works well enough, but the interface doesn’t quite work for the medium.

      Hopefully with all the displaced app developers, the Fediverse projects will gain steam.