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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 @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])

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

Friend Camp
@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
@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.