ActivityPub is not the only nor the first distributed/federated social network, but it has come to be rather dominant at the moment, largely thanks to Mastodon’s popularity. Some others seem to have faded into the background, like for instance diaspora.
this post was submitted on 01 Feb 2025
46 points (100.0% liked)
Asklemmy
45294 readers
1064 users here now
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
- Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
- Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
- An actual topic of discussion
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
- Lemmyverse: community search
- sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
- !lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
Before the fediverse we already had the IndieWeb with Webmentions and microformats. And before that we had the Tent protocol. And before that we had the blogosphere with webrings, Pingbacks, Trackbacks and RSS.
I’m not an expert on this, but the fediverse is just a collection of things that can all communicate on a federated standard. It’s just like email, you can use whatever mail provider you want but you can email anyone else using email.
I guess your question is kind of like “are there other emails?” - and yeah, I guess there are other platforms where you can communicate and send messages, but they aren’t email.
Smolweb