<Soni>
follow/like/boost/reply/block/mute, that kinda stuff
<Helenah>
Ah!
<Helenah>
So hold on...
<Helenah>
Say I have a Twitter post... fedilinks can link to it in some app marketplace of apps that support fedilinks, and one can do these fedi interactions on the linked version of the original thing?
<Helenah>
Twitter post being an example, it could be from any platform you like.
<Soni>
not really designed for twitter
<Soni>
more for mastodon
<Helenah>
But it would work like that with any platform it is designed to support?
<Soni>
you click the link and it opens in an app of your choosing
<Helenah>
Oh, interesting.
<Soni>
wanna use feditext? sure, click the link and it opens in feditext. as opposed to some single-user mastodon instance.
<Soni>
(could it be used for something like twitter and nitter? maybe. it's complicated. there is some "server support" stuff going on, it is optional but the experience kinda sucks without it.)
<Helenah>
Oh this relies on Fediverse stuff, I'll be honest, I never looked into what the Fediverse is.
<Soni>
ah
<Helenah>
Interesting.
<Soni>
there's also a spec about atom feeds, but given how there are no channels about atom or even RSS feeds (in their general form) on this IRC network... yeah probably unlikely to get any support for that anytime soon
<Helenah>
I think this politics is a bit shit in places though https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html Google's Talk thing didn't make XMPP irrelevant, reason being was because Google Talk's audience wasn't using Google Talk for the XMPP protocol behind it.
<Helenah>
Anyway, it sounds quite resistant, I'd heard of mastodon.
<Helenah>
Soni: So this is all the political reasoning behind why people want decentralisation?
<Soni>
Helenah: nah, that's just the surface!
<Helenah>
Ah
<Helenah>
I mean look what happened to Freenode, IRC being federated and all, it's easier to attempt to monetise an IRC network, and that's what happened resulting in a buyout.
<Soni>
have you heard the waves of journalists getting banned from extwitter?
<Helenah>
No.
<Helenah>
But...
<Helenah>
based on observation of Twitter turning to X, and what Elon Musk wants, I predict it will turn into a very exclusive place to be.
<Soni>
IRC is not federated, it works much more like large-scale CDNs than like mastodon
<Helenah>
Maybe centralised was the right term?
<Soni>
(think cloudflare or AWS)
<Helenah>
I mean where you have one person, or a group of people who operate the thing.
<Helenah>
But the majority of users don't.
<Soni>
*nod*
<Helenah>
And that one person or group of people may just be up to some monetisation stuff.
<Helenah>
I wonder what happened to the cash regarding the PDPC when that was dissolved.