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Some folks have gotten themselves together as something they’re calling the Social Web Foundation, and I’ll cut to the chase: this is an attempt by ActivityPub partisans to rebrand the confusing “fediverse” terminology, and in the process, regardless of intent, shit on everything else that’s been the social web going back twenty-five years.

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[–] strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz 2 points 1 month ago

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@skullgiver
> However, the Fediverse was never just about ActivityPub

Correct. As those of us who used GNU social 10 years ago will never tire of telling you, it was coined to describe the OStatus network. Once all the software using OS adopted ActivityPub, it came to describe the AP network, and anything hanging directly off it (eg Diaspora).

> ATProto is part of the Fediverse too

No it isn't, because...

> Fediverse software doesn’t speak it.

Same with XMPP, Matrix, etc

@erlend_sh