Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing the creator of Mastodon, Eugen Rochko (@Gargron). We talked about how crazy the past few weeks have been, why the site was built to resist the kind of takeover that Twitter has seen, and what he makes of Elon's tweet poking fun at Mastodon: https://www.wired.com/story/the-man-behind-mastodon-eugen-rochko-built-it-for-this-moment/
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@willknight Thanks for the great read! In the introduction, shall "the Mastodon protocol" be more appropriate being written as "the ActivityPub protocol"? It's the protocol Mastodon and many other social network implementations follow:
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
www.w3.orgActivityPubThe ActivityPub protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol
based upon the [ActivityStreams] 2.0 data format.
It provides a client to server API for creating, updating and deleting
content, as well as a federated server to server API for delivering
notifications and content.