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title: On the Fediverse
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aliases:
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- fediverse
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tags:
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- social
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- seedling
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date: 2023-09-08
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I recently started looking into the ideology behind the fediverse. Long story short, I like what I see, and will be looking into a project with it soon.
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I started my journey on [fedi.tips](https://fedi.tips/). This is a huge site with mountains of content explaining the fediverse and troubleshooting various hosting/usage issues. The videos linked are really cool.
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## The Ideas
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### Decentralization
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Normally, when I hear "decentralized", my brain goes **straight** to the last tech scam, a la Web3 and cryptocurrency. I always found myself wishing, "why doesn't someone take the really cool principles embodied by crypto and completely divorce them from crypto?" Well, that's what the fediverse seeks to do. I like it!
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## The Reality
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I made a Mastodon account recently, and I'm blown away by how functional it is. The protocol itself has its issues, but it's shockingly simple Ruby which means I can start contributing to it as soon as I get time. Maybe I'll start with its RSS feeds.
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In terms of the actual user experience, I found the Glitch (aka glitch-soc) fork to have some great additions to the protocol. Markdown support in toots is an absolute must for me (you could never tell that I enjoy Markdown, what are you talking about I don't take notes in it or write a site in it or anything).
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I knew about it going in, but was still blown away by how seamless federation with non-mastodon Fediverse ecosystems is insane. Pixelfed and Lemmy are both near perfect at crossposting. |