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weird article on the front page of esquire about twitter vs #mastodon that doesn’t understand even the basic premise of the #fediverse and misses out entirely on the nature of why lots of small self hosted nodes are stronger then one centralized capitalist blob but alas you have to start somewhere. I have a feeling we are gonna get another wave soon. also a little shoutout to #diaspora in there.

https://esquire.com/lifestyle/amp22777589/what-is-mastodon-twitter-platform/

The CEO of Mastodon Wants to Defeat Twitter - What is Mastodon Social Network

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

@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. ;)