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Why Mozilla is betting on a decentralized social networking future (techcrunch.com)

submitted 10 months ago by JRepin@lemmy.ml to c/technology@beehaw.org

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/7456748

The mission-driven tech company behind the Firefox browser, Pocket reader and other apps is now investing its energy into the so-called “fediverse” — a collection of decentralized social networking applications, like Mastodon, that communicate with one another over the ActivityPub protocol.

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[–] OneRedFox@beehaw.org 16 points 10 months ago

Mozilla has been a big advocate for a decentralized web for awhile now. Joining the Fediverse seems like a natural move for them; honestly surprised they didn't do it sooner.