I've been thinking about Mastodon vs Twitter and positioning. It's a neat case study on understanding value vs features.

Mastodon has many differentiated features - federated servers, content moderation, no ads, etc. But the opportunity for them is to clearly position the value those features enable. Example - users should understand the value of decentralization (no company owns your data) vs. seeing this as simply something different from Twitter and kind of a pain. #positioning #marketing

@aprildunford You can launch as "we're opposed to the other guys"

You can only succeed long term by saying "This is what we're best at."

I think we're a long way from there just now. :)

@trevorlongino Totally agree with this.

@aprildunford Also nice to see you over here from Twitter.

It's much quieter here than the firehose that is Twitter. 😋