Why Mozilla is betting on a decentralized social networking future | TechCrunch
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Consumers are hungry for a new way of social networking, where trust and safety are paramount and power isn't centralized with a Big Tech CEO in charge...

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.

  • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Why would I follow a specific person for non-video content? That strikes me as way too parasocial to me. All that person is going to tell me is their personal opinion, and I barely trust the news articles that appear here, much less some famous person’s random opinion.

      • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
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        1 year ago

        when you’ve identified them

        Yeah, that’s part of why I don’t find a lot of value in twitter-style platforms.