Doesn’t Fediverse mean “these applications can federate with each other”? How would you federate with Lemmy without ActivityPub?
Doesn’t Fediverse mean “these applications can federate with each other”? How would you federate with Lemmy without ActivityPub?
If there are multiple protocols, then that defeats the entire purpose of a protocol. If Matrix and ActivityPub are in the Fediverse, then Facebook and Twitter should be, too.
Facebook can’t talk with Twitter, so they aren’t federated with each other. Same goes for ActivityPub and Matrix. Fediverse doesn’t mean “has a federated protocol”. It means “these applications are federated with each other” (from what I understand).
The Fediverse uses the ActivityPub protocol. This allows everything in it to communicate with each other. Lemmy can’t communicate with Matrix since Matrix is a different protocol.
Did someone just slap this together by copying and pasting an asterisk three times? I know we’re an open source, nerdy community but could we hire a graphic designer?
Blech
But then how do you make money with a browser if you aren’t getting Google money and don’t spy on users?