Fediverse

If Twitter joined the Fediverse, it would almost instantly be blocked by most of the rest of the Fediverse on account of its tolerance for bigotry and Nazism.

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While there is clearly a strong appetite amongst women to move away from the digital giants, Spinster is hardly free from their reach, or indeed from hostile men within the wider Fediverse network.

The migration of Gab marked a major test for the Fediverse. Because no one authority controlled the policies of the network, it would be impossible to bar Gab with a single sweeping action, the way centralized social networks such as Facebook or Twitter might.

Instead of creating a single unified platform, the the^([sic]) protocol that Mastodon uses, called ActivityPub, allows anyone to use open-source software to boot up a server that hosts a Twitter-style community with its own rules. Together those servers, and other, non-Mastodon ones, form a collective of interlinked communities dubbed the “Fediverse.”