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1. Fedi.Tips 🎄 (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Dec-2022 06:58:17 JST Fedi.Tips 🎄

   The reason Mastodon and the Fediverse is spread out on so many servers is it protects it from being taken over by anyone. Not even the richest can buy this place.

   Centralised services like Twitter are incredibly easy to buy out. If you move from Twitter to another centralised service, sooner or later that will get bought out too.

   The point of the Fediverse is to break this buyout cycle, to let people be permanently in control of their accounts. More info here:

   ➡️ https://fedi.tips/mastodon-and-the-fediverse-beginners-start-here/#whyisthefediverseonsomanyseparateservers

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 19-Dec-2022 06:58:16 JST Aral Balkan

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     @feditips Well, here’s hoping that’s true. Thing is, there are already very large instances and if a platform like Tumbler implements the protocol, it will – from one day to the next – eclipse even the largest one by an order or two of magnitude.

     I believe vigilance is the order of the day… against corporate capture and vertical scale.

   • Bullet Tooth Tony 🇹🇹 (soleiwsun@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 19-Dec-2022 07:03:24 JST Bullet Tooth Tony 🇹🇹

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     • Ben Ptacek

     @bennysp @feditips ohhhhh ok, that makes a whole lotta sence. Ive been on here since Mid November and im still trying to get use to the layout

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 19-Dec-2022 07:03:24 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Bullet Tooth Tony 🇹🇹
     • Ben Ptacek

     @SoleiwSun @bennysp @feditips And it’s not just Mastodon. You should be able to talk to anyone on any server that implements the ActivityPub protocol regardless of what server software you’re using: so folks who have PixelFed accounts should be able to follow and interact with folks who are on Mastodon servers.

     You can, for example, follow our live steaming server from your Mastodon account because it runs Owncast which implements ActivityPub (https://owncast.small-web.org)

   • Ben Ptacek (bennysp@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 19-Dec-2022 07:03:30 JST Ben Ptacek

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     • Bullet Tooth Tony 🇹🇹

     @SoleiwSun @feditips
     Basically, if you look at your menu and see "Local", you are only seeing your server. When you click "Federated", you are seeing messages from everyone essentially (except for servers that are blocked). This is the Fediverse part.

   • Bullet Tooth Tony 🇹🇹 (soleiwsun@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 19-Dec-2022 07:03:31 JST Bullet Tooth Tony 🇹🇹

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     @feditips what exactly is #Fediverse ? ive been seeing it a lot lately but dont know what it is