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Why Mozilla is betting on a decentralized social networking future (techcrunch.com)

submitted 2 years ago by JRepin@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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The mission-driven tech company behind the Firefox browser, Pocket reader and other apps is now investing its energy into the so-called “fediverse” — a collection of decentralized social networking applications, like Mastodon, that communicate with one another over the ActivityPub protocol.

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[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 203 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Hey, that's us!

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 132 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I thought they were just adding activitypub to some products / making their own accounts but

However, the company is aiming to tackle some of the obstacles that have prevented users from joining and participating in the fediverse so far, including the technical hurdles around onboarding, finding people to follow and discovering interesting content to discuss.

What Mozilla wants to accomplish, then, is to help reconfigure the Mastodon onboarding process so that when someone — including a publisher or creator — joins its instance (or the fediverse in general) they’re able to build their audience with more ease.

Now THAT would be cool. If the browser had a built in way to handle some of this stuff, it would be a lot simpler to deal with some of the issues. I'd love to learn more

[–] tb_@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Edge allows you to "follow" YouTube channels outside of the website itself, not sure how deep that integration goes though as I've never bothered to use it.

Also this is the idea behind Grayjay, where creators would be able to have a "universal identity" across platforms.
For now it's mostly a YouTube and some other video streaming sites alternative.

[–] WalkableProgrammer@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Mom mom I’m on TV

[–] Sabata11792@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Mom, the normies noticed me.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

"Did you reee at them honey?"

"Ugh yes mom"