On 28 april, 2022 - Bill Woodcock wrote: > > > > On Apr 28, 2022, at 10:18 AM, Julian Oliver <[email protected]> wrote: > > Perhaps worth putting to the 'wealthy entrepreneurs' that they may consider > > donating instead to Mastodon's development/bug-bounties, an existing > > migration > > target that is free, open source, and already supporting very large > > populations > > across its many instances. If they would chose otherwise, I would question > > their > > motives from the outset. > > In principle, I agree with that last. > > However, Mastodon is not the be-all-and-end-all of social media. There’s > plenty of room for competition and improvement and new ideas.
Looking into all the various programs that federate over ActivityPub there is, in fact, quite a lot of competition and improvement and new ideas already. Everything from blogging (WriteFreely) to video hosting and distribution (PeerTube) to picture sharing (Pixiv) to book reviews (BookWyrm) to just loads of different flavours of microblogging (e.g. Pleroma and various forks of Mastodon). I personally might have preferred the ecosystem stayed with OStatus, but there's no arguing that the ActivityPub protocol hasn't had a lot more success. /P -- Petter Ericson ([email protected]) -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable from any major commercial search engine. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/lt. Unsubscribe, change to digest mode, or change password by emailing [email protected].
