I’ve been participating in the Fediverse through my own mastodon instance since 2017. What started as an experiment to test new things, focused on exploring decentralized and federated alternatives for communicating on top of the internet, stuck. At the end of 2024, I’m still there. The rhetoric on this network is that you should find […]
The possibilities of the ActivityPub protocol, and what it can bring to the table regarding interoperability in the social media landscape, are immense. It is specially welcome after a decade (and half?) plagued by the dominance of centralized walled gardens that almost eradicated the diverse ecosystem that previously existed. It is used by many software […]
Last year we saw the rise of the Fediverse. Mostly because of a series of external events, that ended up pushing many people to try other alternatives to their centralized platform of choice. Mastodon was clearly the software component that got most attention and has been under the spotlight in the last few months. It […]