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The mission-driven tech company behind the Firefox browser, Pocket reader and other apps is now investing its energy into the so-called “fediverse” — a collection of decentralized social networking applications, like Mastodon, that communicate with one another over the ActivityPub protocol.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Microblogs like Mastodon are excellent for following specific people, and for getting an overview of the current zeitgeist. Forums like Lemmy are excellent for following specific topics. Both are useful in different ways.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would I follow a specific person for non-video content? That strikes me as way too parasocial to me. All that person is going to tell me is their personal opinion, and I barely trust the news articles that appear here, much less some famous person's random opinion.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it's very useful to follow subject matter experts, when you've identified them

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

when you've identified them

Yeah, that's part of why I don't find a lot of value in twitter-style platforms.