Instead of depending on "large proprietary vendors" or building your own, "Open protocols offer a third path. Infrastructure that no single actor owns, that evolves through distributed processes... can be implemented by anyone with the technical capacity... allow governments to reduce dependency on individual vendors without cutting themselves of…

how "Mastodon fits into the much larger concept of the Fediverse... visualisation ... many different use-cases and benefits of different services".Good intro to the Fediverse as a whole, plus the visualisation in png & pdf, and some Q&As covering multiple accounts ("a user preference"), Nextcloud (adding ActivityPub end 2022). Wordpress & Drupal (…