• SMillerNL@piefed.social
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    I don’t think it’s too much for the company that makes mastodon to claim mastodon is “it’s decentralised social network”. The way I read it they don’t claim ownership, they claim to be the author.

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      Mastodon didn’t invent ActivityPub or the Fediverse by a long shot. So calling it their social network makes me throw up a little in my mouth…

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        No, they invented mastodon. Which is the thing they’re adjusting.

        They didn’t invent HTTP either, which they’re not claiming ownership of by using it in mastodon.

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          Mastodon is a specific software operating within the Fediverse social network, nothing it has done has made it “its own thing”. But I’ll stop arguing as it’s clearly pointless.