How does the fediverse technically handle moving audiences across platforms?
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How does the fediverse technically handle moving audiences across platforms? If the goal is being able to un-tethered to a particular social media then what is the tech that allows that to happen? I get an email list being something transferable but how is the fediverse handling moving someone audience from here to there.
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How does the fediverse technically handle moving audiences across platforms? If the goal is being able to un-tethered to a particular social media then what is the tech that allows that to happen? I get an email list being something transferable but how is the fediverse handling moving someone audience from here to there.
Maybe some answers or contacts for you here. .. Maybe add a hashtag like #fediverse to your query?
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/01/what-is-mastodon/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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How does the fediverse technically handle moving audiences across platforms? If the goal is being able to un-tethered to a particular social media then what is the tech that allows that to happen? I get an email list being something transferable but how is the fediverse handling moving someone audience from here to there.
@whiza I guess the short answer is that the open protocol that the fediverse is based around , activitypub allows movement around platforms or Instances that adopt it but can't do so much about moving people from existing closed platforms other than I vite them to join you. The hope is that we could all talk to each other despite our platform choice if they all used the same open protocol (activitypub)though activitypub can talk to ATProto (bluesky) via a "bridge"
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How does the fediverse technically handle moving audiences across platforms? If the goal is being able to un-tethered to a particular social media then what is the tech that allows that to happen? I get an email list being something transferable but how is the fediverse handling moving someone audience from here to there.
@FediTips might have more info on this. Though I expect they've been busy helping all the new folk.
Here's their page on moving servers. Might provide some clues. https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server/
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@whiza I guess the short answer is that the open protocol that the fediverse is based around , activitypub allows movement around platforms or Instances that adopt it but can't do so much about moving people from existing closed platforms other than I vite them to join you. The hope is that we could all talk to each other despite our platform choice if they all used the same open protocol (activitypub)though activitypub can talk to ATProto (bluesky) via a "bridge"
@emsquared that's interesting and makes sense. I'm so curious like how you could solve the problem of picking up and bringing a group with you. I'd assume people are working on something like that.
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@emsquared that's interesting and makes sense. I'm so curious like how you could solve the problem of picking up and bringing a group with you. I'd assume people are working on something like that.
@whiza There are various initiatives, yes but it is obviously easier if various networks used a common, open protocol for communication then moving camp is less of a problem and cross platform communication means we each, with privacy and safety uppermost can communicate across these platforms eg: right now Mastodon, pixelfed, Flipboard, ghost (substack alternative) and WordPress all speak to each other.
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How does the fediverse technically handle moving audiences across platforms? If the goal is being able to un-tethered to a particular social media then what is the tech that allows that to happen? I get an email list being something transferable but how is the fediverse handling moving someone audience from here to there.
The Fediverse uses the same structure used by email and the telephone network. People are on many different providers, but the providers talk to each other using a common technical standard so it's effectively one big network.
When you make a phone call, you don't need to think about which provider the other person uses because the providers are all connected. That's what the Fediverse does for social media.
You might want to read this for more info: https://fedi.tips/what-is-mastodon-what-is-the-fediverse/
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The Fediverse uses the same structure used by email and the telephone network. People are on many different providers, but the providers talk to each other using a common technical standard so it's effectively one big network.
When you make a phone call, you don't need to think about which provider the other person uses because the providers are all connected. That's what the Fediverse does for social media.
You might want to read this for more info: https://fedi.tips/what-is-mastodon-what-is-the-fediverse/
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Let me know if you want any more info, I am trying to provide unofficial tech support on here
There's also lots more info on my website at https://fedi.tips (especially "Quick Start" at the top of the page).
