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What Is Fediverse?

by ShaggyHotDog on 2/16/25, 6:14 PM with 3 comments

• by timothygold on 2/16/25, 6:27 PM

  The fediverse is a marketing buzzword designed to sell fake p2p social media platforms.

  Bluesky -> not actually properly disintermediated or federated. mastadon -> equally misleading.

  Bluesky host and manage centralized infrastructure that would break the system if turned off.

  If an owner of a mastadon server deletes their server all the connected users profiles get deleted too.

• by timothygold on 2/16/25, 6:28 PM

  Hosting a website with an RSS feed is federated. It doesn't solve the problem of finding interesting RSS feeds unless maybe RSS aggregator feeds exist (which they probably do).