How clueless do you have to be to write for a major mainstream tech publisher?
About this clueless:
https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/10/23593966/cloudflare-mastodon-server-wildebeest-instance-fediverse
Wildebeest is not “Mastodon”.
It’s Cloudflare’s own implementation of an ActivityPub server that’s entirely locked in to their own ecosystem.
Avoid.