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@Sarahp Interesting that Mastodon itself combines a myriad of different social networks into one app. In a non-federated world, mastodon.social and vivaldi.net would be completely separate social networks; more so for Flipboard, Ghost, Pixelfed and so on. And yet you get all of them in your home feed on Mastodon.

@Gargron unfortunately, there are other protocols out there trying to do the same

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@Sarahp @Gargron

Yea, at some point being “loyal” to a single protocol may be dated and unproductive. Probably happened already TBH.

Beyond that however, my belief is that “federation happens in the client”. As that’s where interaction and aggregation actually manifests for the user.

Once an app brings multiple protocols together, they’re federated.

The new “protocols not platforms” may quickly be “bridges and aggregator clients … not protocols”