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diff --git a/ap_debian/transcriptish.rst b/ap_debian/transcriptish.rst index b9ae7f4..62f863b 100644 --- a/ap_debian/transcriptish.rst +++ b/ap_debian/transcriptish.rst @@ -44,4 +44,27 @@ in talking about federated social networks. I was there, I was happy with it, but I'd be the first to admit that something like that wasn't going to help more than a tiny minority of people. -Since then, things have improved. +Since then, things have improved. Helped also by the policy changes of a +few centralised platforms, the number of people, and most importantly +the variety of people on the fediverse, and specifically mastodon have +grown. +The raw numbers are still low compared to the centralized platforms, so +you're not likely to find your old school mates on it, or any other +specific person you already know, but it's a great place to get to know +new people that share your interests, no matter what they are. +One day I've even stumbled on somebody who posted about soccer! +something that in the early, nerd-biased days would have been pretty +rare. + +The mastodon community also developed a set of community rules and +expectations about moderation which helps managing the social +interactions between instances with wildly different content rules. + +As for the technical part, in January 2018 the World Wide Web Consortium +released the ActivityPub standard which, while not perfect, has given a +big boost to interoperability between different projects. +This was followed by the summer of activity pub, when the ecosystem +grew significantly with the birth of many projects, often centered on +specific usecases. +Since the whole fediverse shares a common network effect, this enables a +way for new, niche, projects to get a starting boost |