Put another way, what are some examples of software built with federation in mind from the start, rather than on top of a more centralized design?
Put another way, what are some examples of software built with federation in mind from the start, rather than on top of a more centralized design?
What’re you looking for that isn’t all the 20 some fediverse softwares?
My interpretation is something that isn’t the fediverse version of something else. Like Lemmy doesn’t count because it’s the fediverse version of Reddit.
I think the question at that point is “How often is there a completely new way to use the Internet socially, either inside or outside of the federated space?”
I don’t think it happens very often. Blogs, messsage boards and dating sites in the '90s; microblogs, photo and video sharing in the '00s; short form video sharing in the '10s if that counts as a separate thing. There’s only like seven types of social network in the three decades or so they’ve existed.
One major change that has happened is: forums used to be linear with thread bumping (phpBB, SMF), now they are mostly conversation trees with sorting by upvotes or similar (Reddit, Lemmy).
I guess NodeBB or Discourse would not qualify as they were forums that now have AP tacked on as an afterthought. Same for WordPress.
But yeah all the big names are original, fediverse-first software.