Draft: Why ActivityPub is the future https://source.joinmastodon.org/mastodon/blog/blob/master/content/posts/2018-06-27_Why-ActivityPub-is-the-future/index.md
Let me know if you think it's convincing!
@gargron promoting Pleroma and Misskey is great, but I think you could push that even further as a fundamental advantage.
If you or your community wants to interact with Mastodon but needs different features or disagrees with Mastodon's development approaches, independent but interoperable alternatives are available and encouraged. We can rely less on any individual, or any particular software project, and allow for diverse, customized software.
@Gargron Very simple and to the point. I like that.
,blog ,articles , wiki ,voting ,like ,dislike ,games , comment disabling in post , scheduling comments , cloud , chat , ability to change your account from one instance to other(nomadic identity) , star a post , save a post , options for tags and folder so that searching is easy , password protected comments , preview comments before sending them , full control over the who can view by ACL and groups. These are only the features I use. There are lot more then that.
#Zot (which is the protocol for Hubzilla) is getting ready for its next version Zot 6 with more new features.
@Gargron It’s excellent! It just gets better as you read, and I love the last two paragraphs. 👍🏻
@Gargron 💙this. Exactly!
@gargron hey it's not bad!
@Gargron Oh Plume!, i didn't know about that project, but that's what i was looking for!
@Gargron Aren't you going to use term Fediverse? It may be more user-friendly term than ActivityPub.
@Gargron
“The social network that is Mastodon isn't really Mastodon.” hits hard.
Reading the whole article it looks a bit short, like itʼs just a few buzzwords. Although I have no idea how to cheer it up.
@Gargron "If Twitter shuts down, you'll lose your followers. If Facebook shuts down, you'll lose your friends."
You might want to also mention if they shut you down as has happened to many people with inexplicably disabled accounts.
@Gargron could you elaborate a bit on the relationship between Mastodon and other types of networks (PeerTube, PixelFed)?
@Gargron just because I’m legitimately curious, and I don’t really get it. If those details are not relevant to this article then I totally understand 😉
@pizzaiolo I mentioned every project by name with a link. Also, I called it the "federated web" in the article. Fediverse, federation, federated web. Neither word is official and they're all interchangeable.
@pizzaiolo I think it's a distracting detail in a blog post like that. Can't just stuff lots of trivia into it and expect people to keep paying attention.
@Gargron it got me to join!!!
@Gargron Great article! You are killing it with these daily blog posts. 😍