Someone seems to have succeeded in forking #
Mastodon and migrating the fork to #
Nomad, the underlying protocol of #
Streams which provides #
NomadicIdentity. There's little information about what exactly is going on, only
a tech demo video exists on PeerTube. It shows two test instances and the exact same account with the exact same identity running on both, remaining fully in sync. So yes, it's nomadic.
The choice of Nomad instead of #
Zot is understandable as it has better integrated #
ActivityPub support, so there might not be much incompatibility between vanilla Mastodon and the fork, and it'll stay compatible with the rest of the #
Fediverse. Compatibility with #
Hubzilla and especially (streams) will even be enhanced, not only because the fork finally recognises nomadic channels, but also also because it clearly features text formatting and quotes. It remains to be seen whether the handling of embedded images will be improved, too.
This is still very experimental, and more information has been announced to follow soon.
