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How the ‘Fediverse’ Works (and Why It Might Be the Future of Social Media)
Idealist nerds have a long history of giving terribly confusing names to potentially revolutionary technology. So it goes with Fediverse, a portmanteau of “Federation” and “Universe,” and the potential future of the social internet. But what does that mean? Put simply, the Fediverse is the collective name for a bunch of different social networks and platforms that are connected to…
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Opening your Threads account up to the fediverse is as easy as a click
It looks like the fediverse is continuing to open up. In late March, Meta’s Threads introduced a beta feature that allows users from the US, Canada, or Japan to cross-post and view likes from Mastodon and, presumably, other federated social networks. In June, it added that ability to over 100 countries. If you want to do it the long way…
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Sub.club is here to help the fediverse make money
The fediverse has the potential to help create enduring and interoperable social networks. But many creators and businesses rely on bigger, closed platforms because they offer direct ways to make money from their audiences, which is hard to do in the fediverse right now. Sub.club is trying to solve that. The idea is that this will let users on ActivityPub-based…
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Flipboard is going to let you follow fediverse accounts right inside the app
Flipboard is making good on a major fediverse promise. Late last year, at the same time it announced it would be switching user accounts to ActivityPub, Flipboard said it planned to let users follow users on federated platforms that used ActivityPub from the Flipboard app. Starting Tuesday, that feature is here, meaning that you can follow people from places like…
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