Sahwa@reddthat.com to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agoMastodon is making its decentralized social network easier to use with its latest revamptechcrunch.comexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up1281arrow-down11
arrow-up1280arrow-down1external-linkMastodon is making its decentralized social network easier to use with its latest revamptechcrunch.comSahwa@reddthat.com to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square22fedilink
minus-squareArcanoloth@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down21·5 days 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-up34arrow-down2·edit-25 days 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-down22·5 days 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