Sahwa@reddthat.com to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoMastodon is making its decentralized social network easier to use with its latest revamptechcrunch.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1273arrow-down10
arrow-up1273arrow-down1external-linkMastodon is making its decentralized social network easier to use with its latest revamptechcrunch.comSahwa@reddthat.com to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square20fedilink
minus-squareArcanoloth@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down20·1 day agoMastodon didn’t invent ActivityPub or the Fediverse by a long shot. So calling it their social network makes me throw up a little in my mouth…
minus-squareSMillerNL@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33arrow-down2·edit-21 day agoNo, they invented mastodon. Which is the thing they’re adjusting. They didn’t invent HTTP either, which they’re not claiming ownership of by using it in mastodon.
minus-squareArcanoloth@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down21·1 day agoMastodon is a specific software operating within the Fediverse social network, nothing it has done has made it “its own thing”. But I’ll stop arguing as it’s clearly pointless.
Mastodon didn’t invent ActivityPub or the Fediverse by a long shot. So calling it their social network makes me throw up a little in my mouth…
No, they invented mastodon. Which is the thing they’re adjusting.
They didn’t invent HTTP either, which they’re not claiming ownership of by using it in mastodon.
Mastodon is a specific software operating within the Fediverse social network, nothing it has done has made it “its own thing”. But I’ll stop arguing as it’s clearly pointless.
least pedantic fedi user