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How to Put Your Blog on the Fediverse
Without Mastodon
History/Why I should care about Mastodon or Fediverse
Recently, there has been an influx of people who want autonomy in social media. People value their privacy and wonder why we must go to X.com, Facebook.com, or Instagram.com to socialize? Why can’t we start our own social media?
Only recently, the answer was that building social media is expensive and complicated. However, this is changing thanks to new W3C protocols.
Mastodon takes most of the credit for adopting these new protocols because they built a clone of X (formerly Twitter) that operates in the Fediverse.
How the Fediverse Exists
The Fediverse is a federation of servers that agree to communicate via the ActivityPub (AP) protocol. Like HTTP, SMTP, DNS, etc., the AP protocol specifies how servers should communicate to act as a social media website.
For example, email protocols require all email clients/servers to adhere to a set of rules. Those rules dictate how an email message is sent and received. This makes it possible to send a message from yahoo.com to google.com to example.com without a centralized authority.
