I have never been an "online community first" person. The internet is how I stay in touch with people I met in real life. I'm not a "tweet comments at celebrities" guy. I was never funny enough to be the funniest person on Twitter. So when Twitter was accidentally purchased

It became the only reliable source of information I had. People posted links with a minimal amount of commentary, picking and choosing the best content from other social media networks. They’re not doing it to “build a brand” because that’s not a thing in the Fediverse. It’s too disjointed to be a place to build a newsletter subscription base.

  • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
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    What exactly is the fediverse?

    Servers that can federate over ActivityPub protocol. Any server that uses ActivityPub can be considered part of the fediverse.

    What’s included in it?

    Clones of corporate owned sites: twitter (mastodon, misskey), tumblr (wafrn), reddit (lemmy, piefed), facebook (friendica), plus others

    I’ve hear much about fediverse and Lemmy, but is Lemmy part of it or not?

    Yes, it is

    Are other systems like Blue sky a part of it or not?

    Bluesky isn’t, since they use a different protocol, but it’s possible to bridge and interact with it. Wafrn does it.

    Do I transparently see posts from all those different systems?

    This is the biggest “it depends” situation. For instance, by default, lemmy ignores most posts from mastodon and similars. However, mastodon users can post to lemmy communities if they use the proper @, but they cannot specify a title - their post body will also double as the title. They can also reply to comments, they’re easy to spot because they always have an @user when replying.

    Some server types integrate the different things better than others. Friendica and Wafrn seem to be the best for “variety integration”.