Reminder that boosting on the #forkiverse is free, costs zero energy, and is the single best thing you can do to help someone's post reach people who actually want to see it. Don't just fav, BOOST.
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@theraccoonbytes that works the same way as in the fediverse it seems.
@leanderlindahl I feel people had the wrong impression of the #forkiverse because the name.
My take is that is called #forkiverse because the original podcast was named Hard Fork, but I guess people take it as "a fork of the #fediverse which was an unintentional meaning.
I'd hoped this dog would remain asleep, but here we are...
#Mastodon and the legendary #Fediverse are closely related to the #FOSS and software development worlds
In the FOSS and software development world, the word "fork" has an extremely specific meaning, to wit;
Fork: to take existing software code, adopt it into one's own work flow, alter it, and in doing so take that source code and "fork" it in a significant new direction with new code that replaces the original, usually to add features or improve functionality
Now then, I was camping on the #Forkiverse
/public/local
for a long while and it was clear from the convos that the "Forkiverse" was being presented as a fork of Mastodon in the source code sense -- that, even though Forkiverse is still running box-stock v4.5.7 Mastodon source code, and is not in any sense a "fork" of anything
All this said (again) I'm going to hit Post and mute this convo -- once again
Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_(software_development)