@lupyuen The Verge's article makes the mistake, perhaps stimulated, perhaps just copying simplistic takes on the Stanford paper, of confusing Mastodon, an application running, individually, on any number of serfers, with the Fediverse, a network of many servers, many running Mastodon.
As well report Microsoft Word is rife with X where X is nasty, since many authors of X use Word for their work. Excel is rife with fraud may be closer, fraudists using spreadsheets.
@lupyuen The Verge's article makes the mistake, perhaps stimulated, perhaps just copying simplistic takes on the Stanford paper, of confusing Mastodon, an application running, individually, on any number of serfers, with the Fediverse, a network of many servers, many running Mastodon.
As well report Microsoft Word is rife with X where X is nasty, since many authors of X use Word for their work. Excel is rife with fraud may be closer, fraudists using spreadsheets.