Mastodon is really having a moment in mainstream news coverage. CNN, BBC, TIME, etc.
The influx of users will continue at an alarming rate. Remember to be welcoming, and kind, and positive, and helpful.
This isn't just an opportunity to improve the idea of social media, it's an opportunity to shine a wonderful light on #opensource.
@killyourfm wait, the mainstream media covers something about Mastodon now!?
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@killyourfm I just mind my business until I check the instance tab and see your post and I was just...
HOLD ON, WHAT!?
@killyourfm @fudgesiclesxd not a problem :) but yeah, for all intents and purposes it just means 500k people made an account, and another 500k came back to their old accounts
which is still pretty great :)
@paninid I remember thinking RT meant Reply Tweet, rather than retweet.
I also remember when you had to start your message with a period if you wanted to mention other users in a 'public' tweet, because else it would treat the message as a semi-private message instead.
Or when the character limit was just 140 characters and how people ended up using all sorts of their own link shorteners to avoid long links from eating up their character count. Of course Twitter eventually ended up going for forcing their own link shortener, rather than the approach Mastodon took of just giving links a fixed length count without shortening them.
@scathach They'll get there. This is a predictable cycle when "new" tech emerges. A rush to be included in the coverage, with surface-level information.
The nuanced coverage will come, hopefully.
It's great exposure though!
@Arcana @scathach *Nods* I understand where you're coming from.
Speaking only for myself, I WANT people to come here and discover how awesome it is when social networks aren't controlled by megacorps and billionaires.
But I also recognize that scenario means a lot of the toxicity could come with it.
So, what to do?
@Arcana @scathach I'd like to believe people can unlearn some of the habits and behaviors and expectations that have been beat into their heads by social media.
But I'm always trying to be an optimist.
I mean, I'm one of them. I catch myself saying words like "users" instead of "people." Until recently I had my employer, past employers, and my job role in my Masto bio instead of just...stuff I really love.
@EsthervdS YES, great observation. (I wish I could edit the post now.)
You know, it's becoming rapidly apparent to me how ingrained certain words are in our everyday vocabulary now. Words that need proper replacements.
Thank you.
H/t https://layer8.space/@killyourfm/109302202583989511
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