To expand a bit about mastodon, forking, and federation - mastodon is an open source software project, and those sites are using the code to build their site (with some modifications - hence the forking).
Saying they share an ecosystem is analogous to saying you share an ecosystem with stormfront because you both run phpbb forum software.
To expand a bit about mastodon, forking, and federation - mastodon is an open source software project, and those sites are using the code to build their site (with some modifications - hence the forking).
Saying they share an ecosystem is analogous to saying you share an ecosystem with stormfront because you both run phpbb forum software.
Federation does indeed mean they would be networked together, creating a ecosystem larger than just a single install of the software.
Anyways! Love the pod - but little things like this are one of the reasons media and tech have such bad blood right now, so thought I’d chime in.
To expand a bit about mastodon, forking, and federation - mastodon is an open source software project, and those sites are using the code to build their site (with some modifications - hence the forking).
Saying they share an ecosystem is analogous to saying you share an ecosystem with stormfront because you both run phpbb forum software.
Federation does indeed mean they would be networked together, creating a ecosystem larger than just a single install of the software.
Anyways! Love the pod - but little things like this are one of the reasons media and tech have such bad blood right now, so thought I’d chime in.