Why Mastodon network is defying the “critical mass” – it doesn’t just gain value from the quantity of users, it also gains value from the quantity of connected services
Being based on the ActivityPub standard means that we can use Mastodon, PeerTube (a YouTube-like service), PixelFed (an Instagram-like service) and many others, and they can all interoperate. This gives the fediverse a scale advantage over the walled garden platforms.“Because it speaks the same language as Mastodon, a Mastodon user can follow a PeerTube user....
