Scott M. Stolz

Right now the user’s identity and the content they consume & interact with are too intertwined in many cases.

There are two aspects here:

1. The user’s home base, which is basically which server or app they log into.
2. The communities they belong to, which can be on any server anywhere on the fediverse.

We have to get out of the mindset that the server you sign up on is your community, because with federation, you are not limited to the server you sign up on.

I didn’t realize that Neil changed his name. ;)

I guess I missed the drama. But it is to be expected. Many people came from centralized social media, and simply signed up for something their friends told them about. For those people, they learned about federation after the fact. It is a new concept for a lot of people.

I think Hubzilla and Friendica are its only links to the rest of the Fediverse. Both support ActivityPub and Diaspora.

Maybe Diaspora needs to update their logo, similar to how Walmart just updated their logo recently.

@NigelFrobisher There actually are a bunch of competing fediverse platforms that use entirely different codebases. Some are actually older than Mastodon.

For example, I am posting from Hubzilla, not Mastodon. Hubzilla has an entirely different codebase and an entirely different feature set.

#^[1](https://hubzilla.network/page/info/compare)

It’s not just that they may not care. They may not know what they’re being asked or know what the consequences are for choosing either option. Then they sit there for 30 minutes searching the internet for what the question means.