Post 9ogs7MrVfGDROyn65w by prashere@connect.fshm.in
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 (DIR) Post #9ogqfih2nrNV319G8e by prashere@connect.fshm.in
       2019-11-06T15:55:55.284437Z
       
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       Ah. Finally back to home from work. What to do? I am a Code coolie, in other words a person who writes code for wages.I am not a smartphone type person, but out of excitement somehow I managed to reply and write posts from my phone today here in #Fediverse.So here I am in front of my computer, sitting comfortably to write posts to explain some terminologies and share my fediverse experience for a while.Follow the thread. #FediverseAMA
       
 (DIR) Post #9ogqfjPi7n6hHY2vlA by nadircazi@mstdn.social
       2019-11-06T16:05:34Z
       
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       @prashere If my home Instance server goes down or destroyed, is the account gone, along with all the content I ever tooted?
       
 (DIR) Post #9ogs7MrVfGDROyn65w by prashere@connect.fshm.in
       2019-11-06T16:12:07.899179Z
       
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       I see most of you have your account on mastodon.social or mstdn.social instances. First lets look at what mastodon is?Mastodon, in first place is a software. Not just any software, but Free and Open Source Software. It means, the code for this software is readily available to everyone, so that anyone can get a copy of it and use it for their own purposes.People around the world took this code and installed it on servers and Tada, we have many websites running this software. mastodon.social, mstdn.social are just two such websites among hundreds of websites running mastodon. When I say the word instance it refers to a particular website that is running mastodon or similar software.Similar software? Yes. Mastodon is not alone. There are other such projects too. Like what I am using right here in connect.fshm.in is powered by a software called #Pleroma. Both are two different software but they both know how to talk to each other. Thanks to a common language (i.e protocol) called ActivityPub.This network of multiple instances able to talk to each other, therefore people on instances can talk to each other is what we call Fediverse, like a universe with so many planets, stars, black holes, etc.,
       
 (DIR) Post #9ogwTtsA0pxXyB5xHk by prashere@connect.fshm.in
       2019-11-06T16:30:46.006394Z
       
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       Like Mastodon (or) Pleroma, Twitter and Facebook is also a software. But the fundamental difference is that, both Facebook and Twitter are closed source software. i.e the code for Twitter/Facebook is not available to the general public like how Mastodon or Pleroma's code is available.This makes all the difference. Other than Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc. no one can run another instance of Twitter or Facebook therefore we are at the mercy of those corporations. Their operating principles and policies change as they wish and we have no say in it.While the scene here in #fediverse is different. We have many instances and many admins. There is no single operating principle (or) policy that applies to all servers. Each server has it's own policy and it is up to the admin (or) moderators of those servers.