They really shat on Lance in this article, lol.
Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives
Submitted 1 week ago by rysiek@szmer.info to technology@beehaw.org
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HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Lance Ulanoff has replied to this blog post: mastodon.social/…/114285108628269898
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 4 days ago
Lance’s quote at the end of the article is so good lol, really cool that Mastodon has lived longer than Google+ already!
OneRedFox@beehaw.org 1 week ago
Federated social media has been around for a long time; the oldest one that I know of was identi.ca from the late 2000s. ActivityPub platforms like Mastodon have since breathed a lot of life into the federated ecosystem and I’m excited to see what the future holds for it.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Arguably, the first federated social media is email from 1981. A more “social networking” type system is IRC from 1988.
rysiek@szmer.info 1 week ago
Yup. Up until roughly the times of early Twitter, federated, decentralized communication systems were the obvious norm to any engineer designing one.
Twitter was even meant to be federated and decentralized. I had interviewed one of their first engineers (this piece is about BlueSky, and in Polish; the Twitter thing is important background), who was there and working on that in the very early days. They had a proof of concept. But then the VCs got involved and the decision was that it would be harder to make money on a decentralized service. Rest is history.
rysiek@szmer.info 1 week ago
Yeah, I had an account on identi.ca. I even wrote about this: rys.io/en/168.html
OneRedFox@beehaw.org 1 week ago
Ah yeah, I remember reading that post awhile ago. I was quite surprised to find out how old Friendica is (first release in 2010); if that doesn’t demonstrate longevity, then I dunno what does.
Trihilis@ani.social 1 week ago
That was a fun read. Loved the sarcasm.
Kirk@startrek.website 1 week ago
@rysiek@mstdn.social’s blog is one of my favorites. He really understand the social aspect to a lot of modern technology.
rysiek@szmer.info 1 week ago
Aww, thank you!
Kirk@startrek.website 1 week ago
I did not realize you were OP (or even had a Lemmy account) 😂
Boomkop3@reddthat.com 1 week ago
Unless google or facebook starts trying to spaghetti up the codebase then drop it, I don’t expect it to go anywhere
rysiek@szmer.info 1 week ago
Facebook is trying with Threads. Threads is directly targeting Fedi. Thankfully, it does not seem to be working the way Meta wanted it to work – that is, to start sucking people in from fedi due to sheer size and presumably better UI. Turns out people who had moved to fedi really hate Meta, who’da thunk it.
Boomkop3@reddthat.com 1 week ago
I don’t mean them trying to compete. I’m referring to a thing they’ve done before. They offer help to an open source project but their help ends up driving the project into the ground.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
inb4 all the people who complain that we need famous people on here for anyone to give a shit about the Fediverse.
Emphatically, I am here because it’s all just random weirdos.
Kirk@startrek.website 1 week ago
Mastodon has more of a flat structure and is designed to be more conversational which is why I think it hasn’t caught on amongst celebrities and the pundit class. It’s great for conversation but only so-so at self promotion.
sibachian@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
there is a ton of famous people active on Mastodon tho. George Takei. John Scalzi. James Gunn. Cory Doctorow. Charlie Stross. William Gibson. Ron Gilbert.
Some left a year ago tho, probably for BlueSky, like Linus Torvald, Stephen Fry, Mark Ruffalo, Greta Thunberg, Felicia Day, etc.
A bunch of official european channels too like the european commission.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
Why thank you Snot Flickerman, I think you’re pretty random yourself.