"Mastodon" and "Fediverse"

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

An avatar roaming the decentralised and federated 3-D virtual worlds based on OpenSimulator, a free and open-source server-side re-implementation of Second Life. Mostly talking about OpenSim, sometimes about other virtual worlds, occasionally about the Fediverse beyond Mastodon. No, the Fediverse is not only Mastodon.

If you're looking for real-life people posting about real-life topics, go look somewhere else. This channel is never about real life.

Even if you see me on Mastodon, I'm not on Mastodon myself. I'm on Hubzilla which is neither a Mastodon instance nor a Mastodon fork. In fact, it's older and much more powerful than Mastodon. And it has always been connected to Mastodon.

I regularly write posts with way more than 500 characters. If that disturbs you, block me now, but don't complain. I'm not on Mastodon, I don't have a character limit here.

I rather give too many content warnings than too few. But I have absolutely no means of blanking out pictures for Mastodon users.

I always describe my images, no matter how long it takes. My posts with image descriptions tend to be my longest. Don't go looking for my image descriptions in the alt-text; they're always in the post text which is always hidden behind a content warning due to being over 500 characters long.

If you follow me, and I "follow" you back, I don't actually follow you and receive your posts. Unless you've got something to say that's interesting to me within the scope of this channel, or I know you from OpenSim, I'll most likely deny you the permission to send me your posts. I only "follow" you back because Hubzilla requires me to do that to allow you to follow me. But I do let you send me your comments and direct messages. If you boost a lot of uninteresting stuff, I'll block you boosts.

My "birthday" isn't my actual birthday but my rezday. My first avatar has been around since that day.

If you happen to know German, maybe my "homepage" is something for you, a blog which, much like this channel, is about OpenSim and generally virtual worlds.

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Jupiter Rowland

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Jupiter Rowland
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"Mastodon" and "Fediverse"

The network is named "Fediverse", not "Mastodon".

If you call the network "Mastodon", you discriminate against all Mastodon users. You discriminate against the users of Pleroma, Akkoma, Misskey, Calckey, Firefish, Iceshrimp-JS, Iceshrimp.NET, CherryPick, Sharkey, Catodon, Meisskey, Tanukey, Neko, Mitra, GoToSocial, snac, Socialhome, Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams), Forte, Pixelfed, Vernissage, Lemmy, /kbin, Mbin, PieFed, Ghost, Flipboard, WordPress, WriteFreely, Plume, Funkwhale, Bandwagon, Castopod, PeerTube, Loops, Owncast, Mobilizon, Gancio, BookWyrm, Flohmarkt and many other Fediverse server applications. Because you exclude them from the Fediverse. You exclude everyone from the Fediverse who isn't on Mastodon. And that's more than 30% of all active Fediverse users.

The server software that you probably use is named "Mastodon", not "Fediverse".

If you refer to Mastodon as "the Fediverse", you claim that the whole Fediverse is as limited as Mastodon. Which it isn't. The cool features that you want

The network is named "Fediverse", not "Mastodon".

The server software that you probably use is named "Mastodon", not "Fediverse".

If you refer to Mastodon as "the Fediverse", you claim that the whole Fediverse is as limited as Mastodon. Which it isn't. The cool features that you want "the Fediverse" to have, the dreadful features that you want the Fediverse to never have, the Fediverse most likely already has them right now.

Mastodon doesn't. But the Fediverse does. Not the whole Fediverse, but the Fediverse.

I'm not on Mastodon. This is not a Mastodon toot. I'm on Hubzilla (https://hubzilla.org, https://joinfediverse.wiki/Hubzilla). Hubzilla is almost four years older than Mastodon, and as you can see, it's (optionally) federated with Mastodon, otherwise you couldn't see this. And it has features that you may want, it has features that you may fear, and it has features that you probably couldn't even imagine.

At the same time, however, Hubzilla does not have Mastodon's culture. It has its own, older culture that is tailor-made for Hubzilla and its features. And it won't give up its culture in favour of Mastodon's culture.

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