After reading a bit about Usenet, it seems to me as if the whole Fediverse seems to be just a reinvention of Usenet.

What’s the big difference?

  • Rikudou_SageA
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    911 months ago

    Fediverse is one standard - ActivityPub.

    • Pixel
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      711 months ago

      Yeah but there’s different ways to interact with the fediverse via activitypub, whereas Usenet was just. Usenet

    • kitonthenet
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      311 months ago

      It’s actually several standards, the primary one is activitypub but mastodon also uses webfinger, and for example peertube uses p2p transfers to serve video

      • Square SingerOP
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        211 months ago

        But they aren’t compatible, are they? Which would make it multiple, disconnected fediverses.

        • kitonthenet
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          No, i can follow and post to mastodon accounts from here, and I’ve posted my cat to !cat from my mastodon, sometimes you lose certain fields (mastodon doesn’t really know what to do with upvotes, so it doesn’t display them when I’m logged into mastodon) but the post works fine on lemmy. I also follow peertube accounts from my mastodon too

          • CommunityLinkFixerBotB
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            111 months ago

            Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !cat@lemmy.world