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You heard about #Decentralized Platforms, but have you heard of "Federated" Platforms and "ActivityPub" before? Lets dive deep into #Mastodon and break down all these Social Concepts! 👇👇👇
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1/ ActivityPub is gaining momentum We have many platforms that have or are integrating #ActivityPub. An example would be #Meta which is working on a new service codenamed P92 which will carry the Instagram branding and support ActivityPub which is what #Mastodon uses.
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2/ Breaking down ActivityPub So what is #ActivityPub? Its main concept consists of two layers which is the server to server federation protocol for sharing of information, and a client to server protocol so users can communicate with ActivityPub using their accounts on servers.
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3/ How ActivityPub Works #ActivityPub users are typically represented as an “Actor” which refers to an account on a server. In the image shown, the word “Inbox” and “Outbox” is easy to understand - it is like email where you can get messages or send messages respectively.
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4/ Why ActivityPub? ActivityPub is enabling interoperability/interconnectedness within Social Networks. In the future, a very real possibility would be that you only require one account and you are able to engage with other users on different platforms with ActivityPub.
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5/ A Comparison to other Similar Concepts So how does #Mastodon compare to other Social Networks such as those using blockchain such as #LensProtocol, or those using a peer to peer network or known as Relays such as #Nostr? The diagram best describes how we see them.
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6/ Breaking Down the Social Architecture While protocols/applications such as #LensProtocol #lenster allow users to “delete” their own posts by hiding it, the fact that it is immutable means that once it is recorded on-chain, it cannot be censored or removed.
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7/ Comparison! We look at #LensProtocol #lenster in comparison to #Mastodon, where although on Mastodon we remove the power off a single central party, and split it into many parties, the server owner is still able to censor your content and even delete your account.
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8/ Comparison! pt2 Whereas for #Nostr, if a relay where your content is posted to chooses to block your content, you can still host your own relay and your content would still be discoverable.
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9/ The Social Dilemma Although there are even more trade-offs for each platform/protocol/technology, we can roughly categorize the way we view social networks in the image above. We call this the “Social Dilemma”. #Web3 #Social
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10/ Introducing Mastodon #Mastodon is an ActivityPub powered platform. And although there are cons to this platform, there are also several good points about it. Lets break down the terminologies frequently used on #Mastodon.
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