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Darius Kazemi

@wakest ok but this is HILARIOUS, check the <title> tag

moved to @[email protected]Aug 22, 2018

@darius wait isn't @vantablack our CEO?

@wakest @darius @vantablack

arathodic Aug 22, 2018

as in "the sixth sense (1999)" twitter is dead and does not know.

@arathodic @wakest @vantablack that much has been clear to me for a while

@darius @wakest Gargamel, CEO of Mastodon, Knight of the Fediverse, Archwizard of ActivityPub.

@darius @wakest on a more serious note, some might see this inability of the mainstream media to understand Fediverse as a problem.

I see it as an opportunity. We can use whatever titles we want to sound "serious" and whatever buzzwords to sound "bleeding-edge" or "innovative".

Sure, Gargamel as a CEO sounds silly. But calling all the admins of the Fediverse "Board Members" would potentially be a useful hack to give them platform in mainstream media.

@rysiek @wakest But that also brings along the baggage of those terms. "Board Member leaves [company]"

@darius @wakest oh sure, but then we can say "yeah, thing is, this is not a company and works differently; this is not as much of a problem"

But we can do it *then* instead of worrying about it *now*. *Now* we can hack the system with language.

I did similar things many times and from my experience it can be very effective.

uid=wolf480pl,ou=Users,dc=a,dc=nom,dc=pl Aug 22, 2018

@rysiek @wakest @darius
stakeholders!

Darius Kazemi (@[email protected])

36.6K Posts, 2.28K Following, 14.3K Followers · I'm the administrator of this server. https://tinysubversions.com is where most of my stuff lives. I make Hometown along with a bunch of other fediverse software (see pinned posts). I'm trying to fix the internet, and some people say I'm at least kind of succeeding. Based in Portland, Oregon, USA. he/him

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@wolf480pl @wakest @darius

@darius @wakest "So-and-so, a Board Member of the Fediverse, mentioned the decentralized nature of the Fediverse infrastructre as the main reason for its resilience, and ability to provide more flexible rules for its users -- instead of the antiquated 'one size fits all' approach of Twitter and Facebook, which clearly doesn't handle alt-right well."

Boom.

@rysiek @wakest what about the 600 other board members claiming conflicting things. At that point the we are at where we currently are (I think where we currently are in relation to press is fine, what we need to be doing is being a great place for all kinds of users)

@darius @wakest dunno man, Twitter has just a single CEO and he keeps ending up with large positive number of feet in his mouth.

I like our chances. ;)

uid=wolf480pl,ou=Users,dc=a,dc=nom,dc=pl Aug 22, 2018

@rysiek @wakest @darius
One of Board Members of the Fediverse made a blocklist and put instances of 10 other Board Members on it.

Darius Kazemi (@[email protected])

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@wolf480pl @wakest @darius "This might seem like a problem, but due to the design of the Fediverse, it is not. Board Members are responsible for different communities, and some communities don't mix that well. Compare this to Reddit or Facebook, where there is no way to have a conversation between two different forums. By default, on Fediverse conversations are possible across fora. Some fora decide to be a bit more closed, and that's also fine."

@rysiek @wolf480pl @wakest I think that will translate into pure noise and confusion, the corpspeak is at this point a coat of paint on a black hole

moved to @[email protected]Aug 22, 2018

@darius @rysiek @wolf480pl are you implying that panting black holes is not the awesomest thing ever cause I will argue to the death over that one.