Today is Global Switch Day for the Fediverse, and to be honest it surprised me after waking up and seeing @
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I follow Dan closely due to his work on PixelFed & Loops, amazing platforms that has been
Matrix as a whole is still federated and decentralised
It is, but it shouldn’t be in an infographic saying join the Fediverse. It’s like a shop saying drink Coco-Cola and then serving Pepsi without informing its patrons.
Eh. Fediverse is a portmanteau of federation and universe. It’s perfectly fine and not misleading imho to suggest other federation-capable services in this context. Especially considering Matrix is definitely part of the wider cultural context underpinning the transition of some groups to using these counterculture services (it’s often frequently recommended in these contects, often used by people on mastoson etc anyways),