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by zaph0d_ 1652 days ago
I am not sure if they are aware of the Fediverse [1,2]. The Fediverse essentially rebuilds all the social-networking services but as federated services. This means each service can be hosted by multiple instances and instances can communicate with one another, but all still have their internal rules. I think they even used the "-verse" term before the whole Metaverse-hype.

They could move the tracker to a suitable Mastodon instance [3] or even host their own Mastodon instance in order to get a suitable exposure out there (Maybe even use one of the Blogging instances). This would also be a first test how robust the Fediverse is with respect to external pressure.

[1] https://fediverse.party/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse [3] https://instances.social/

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they don't even need Mastodon. Take WordPress and install the ActivityPub plugin[0] on it and you will then have the entire fedi at your reach.

[0] https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/

>I am not sure if they are aware of the Fediverse

According to the account owner's substack, they are on Gab. So, sort of.

> sort of

I don't think so. Gab doesn't federate with the rest of the network, so for all intents and purposes it's not part of the Fediverse.

I meant sort of aware, not sort of federated. But yeh, not really.