cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/17686207

It’s a very long post, but a lot of it is a detailed discussion of terminology in the appendix – no need to read that unless you’re into definitional struggles.

  • The Nexus of Privacy@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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    25 days ago

    For people who want to join a twitter clone there aren’t any good ActivityPub options – Mastodon’s good at other things, but isn’t a good Twitter alternative let along clone. And ActivityPub’s version of “true federation” isn’t the only kind of federation. That said, I agree that AT isn’t an option for people who want to join a federating-in-theActivityPub-sense-of-the-word Twitter clone,

    • Cris@lemmy.world
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      21 days ago

      In what way is mastodon a bad twitter alternative?

      I love Mastodon, but I never actually used twitter much so I don’t have much of a sense for why Mastodon might not be comparable