you know, being active on both Nostr and my own Mastodon server is arguably *more* decentralised than just being active on one. one foot in each camp. 👌
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How is that?
well, only a handful of people make the effective decisions around how these networks are designed. if certain influential figures push something, it's likely to happen.
most of the Fediverse runs on Mastodon. what Eugen Rochko thinks matters a lot.
i don't know who's the most central figure in the design of Nostr, but i reckon if someone like Jack Dorsey says something, that'll make waves...
and i don't know what is the future of either network. if i'm connected to both and one fails, this means i have a backup.
non-centralised (decentralised, distributed) systems are all about redundancy and so if you use more of them, you have more redundancy on the human/user level.
i mean, most of us have multiple social arenas in real life, so even if we drop out of one, we still have the rest.
What is fediverse?
a very broad definition would include all of these social networks - most of which are incompatible - but in the most common sense these days, people mean anything ActivityPub compatible, with Mastodon being the most popular server software for that. i suspect Nostr may have taken some inspirations and lessons from it, but wanted to make it more decentralised. on Mastodon, you're still relying on making accounts on specific servers. the ability to migrate identities was added a while back, but you can't bring your posts with you, so it's still a bit limited.
these = https://fediverse.party/
Does mastodon have clients like Nostr?
plenty of them. it's been around since 2016 and has about 1.8 million active users.
member.cash or mastodon one o them?
can you cross an account to nostr account to fediverse?
not familiar with member.cash. the top servers are these. https://void.cat/d/9PukEcFTVMVVaqsKaKecF1.webp
it's hard to recommend a specific server, but what people usually do is sign up for something like mastodon.social, mastodon.online or mstdn.social and then later they find a permanent home elsewhere. i have a server at berserker.town myself.
Is Bigo Live one of these Fediverse?
i don't think so. maybe the whole thing just escaped your radar? it happens sometimes. there were some news stories about people escaping from Twitter to Mastodon when Elon Musk took it over. it's the biggest alternative to Twitter right now.
So twitter owns mastodon?
that's not what i said, no. if Twitter owned it, it wouldn't be an alternative. that's like saying Instagram is an alternative to Facebook, but Meta owns them both, so it's the same company. like Nostr, Mastodon isn't owned by anyone or operated by any one person or company. it's free and open and not centrally controlled.