A mastodon.social account with a green website link to the official page is already sufficient. Only the owner of said website can do that, that’s the way public people and companies are able to publicly verify the accounts authenticity.
It’s neither hard nor do we lack the management software for social media accounts supporting Fedi. Those companies just rely on falsified data telling them there’s no alternative to those big networks and vibes.
I mean, when you’re comparing it to a locked down mess of a social media site like Twitter, even that is really overkill. All a website would need to replicate that format is a collection of HTML-only webpages, or if you want to be fancy, an RSS feed.
As nice as a return to a more decentralized web experience would be, people have come to rely on the social platforms as a sort of info hub to have everything delivered regardless of device.
Does make me curious though about a site or maybe a self hosted software you could log into and have a stack of feeds all maintained there
As nice as a return to a more decentralized web experience would be, people have come to rely on the social platforms as a sort of info hub to have everything delivered regardless of device.
I mean, does Twitter even do that well at this point? At the very least, it doesn’t work as well as an RSS feed.
An organization who was serious about posting and knowing it was them would clave their own fediverse instance.
A mastodon.social account with a green website link to the official page is already sufficient. Only the owner of said website can do that, that’s the way public people and companies are able to publicly verify the accounts authenticity.
It’s neither hard nor do we lack the management software for social media accounts supporting Fedi. Those companies just rely on falsified data telling them there’s no alternative to those big networks and vibes.
I mean, when you’re comparing it to a locked down mess of a social media site like Twitter, even that is really overkill. All a website would need to replicate that format is a collection of HTML-only webpages, or if you want to be fancy, an RSS feed.
As nice as a return to a more decentralized web experience would be, people have come to rely on the social platforms as a sort of info hub to have everything delivered regardless of device.
Does make me curious though about a site or maybe a self hosted software you could log into and have a stack of feeds all maintained there
I mean, does Twitter even do that well at this point? At the very least, it doesn’t work as well as an RSS feed.