Re:Libre Office has 10k followers on Mastodon
by Cyberdog on Monday September 12, 2022 @12:21PM
(#32812599)
No, it's fine. Keep conflating the entire fediverse with Mastodon, it's fine. Just like email with Gmail or the web with Chrome, it's not really necessary to recognize that alternative interfaces to what is in fact an open standard exist and are in fact widely-used. I'm not really, really bothered by it or anything.
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Re:Libre Office has 10k followers on Mastodon
by stinkytaco on Monday September 12, 2022 @12:38PM
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They are on the fosstodon server, so I'm not sure it's entirely unreasonable to say "mastodon" here. Some of those followers may not be using Mastodon, but LibreOffice is.
Re:Libre Office has 10k followers on Mastodon
by Cyberdog on Monday September 12, 2022 @02:54PM
(#32815069)
But they do not have 10k followers on the Fosstodon instance; that doesn't really make sense unless you were awkwardly counting only followers from other users of that instance. They have 10k followers on the whole network. At any rate, it's still conflating the software with one instance that is running it.
Re:Libre Office has 10k followers on Mastodon
by m-p-3 on Monday September 12, 2022 @05:11PM
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So? The whole idea of the fediverse is to be able to follow and communicate no matter where your account resides. My account is on mastodon.social and I follow it, why wouldn't that count?
Re:Libre Office has 10k followers on Mastodon
by Cyberdog on Monday September 12, 2022 @05:51PM
(#32817497)
Yes, that's my point. Mastodon is just a piece of software which interacts with the network that makes that cross-instance interaction pssible. It is not the network itself. But so many people conflate the two.