Ben Bunge
The OatmealThis feels appropriate for the second thing I've ever posted to mastodon.
airavata@oatmeal sounds about right
Dozer / Christian@oatmeal But it's so shiny!
ThatKomputerKat 
William Ingle-Gillis@oatmeal - i still use your RSS. :)
Strafer@padrewill @oatmeal same, any website I’m interested in I’ve gone back to RSS since I know I’ll actually get updates.
Artanux - Simon Lefort@padrewill : Me too!
@oatmeal : Welcome!😊
Third spruce tree on the left@padrewill @oatmeal same! RSS still where it's at!
SVSalon@oatmeal I felt like that with blogs and RSS when it was everybody writing and not consolidated into big boxes
Carlos Solís@oatmeal you can replace the f with the bird for actuality.
ari 
@oatmeal Evergreen content
funambuline 🦏🌻@oatmeal so happy to read you here (and by email, and on your site ❤️)
Daniel J@oatmeal I shall continue to boost your cartoony goodness for the price of free as it continues to amuse me greatly 😁
Chema Hernández Gil
RJD@oatmeal that hit home at the time.. 25k facebook page total waste of effort... welcome to tooting!
💉💉💉💉 Sean Houlihane 🕷️🔶@Rjdlandscapes @oatmeal I do wonder how the commercial side of this is going to play out, and how we find a sensible balance of where advertising is seen.
Ros Jackson@oatmeal I think about this cartoon often. It's appropriate now: we shouldn't be swapping one walled garden for another. The Adverse basically took all the conversations that were happening on people's blogs, and consolidated them. With the Fediverse, there's the possibility of taking that back, given more widespread use of ActivityPub.
Kudra 
@rosjackson @oatmeal I have not only thought of, but shared this comic many many times, most recently as about 2 months ago, before Space Karen started throwing his sink around.
I am so happy to see you here, Matt. Welcome. I will boost you! But I also suggest hashtagging!
Pavol Salgari@oatmeal I still don’t understand how people were voluntarily giving up control over their audience in favor of social networks. They basically lost their own little communities and gave them to multimillionaire owned money grabbing machines.
Rachel Greenham
Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️
Olivier Lambert@oatmeal So happy to see you here! Also it's the opportunity to tell you I'm a big fan of your work since years (I know I'm not the only one but still happy to tell it out loud! 😂)
Kirk Biglione@oatmeal The blogosphere will rise again.
nobloat@oatmeal good to see you here
@oatmeal thank you for being here.
Nathan Carpenter@oatmeal nailed it!
Ash@oatmeal F*cebook is the false prophet
Jeff Martin@oatmeal Hi there, glad to see you on Mastodon! Love your comics.
I don’t know if you’ll see this message or not, but Mastodon is different than other services you may have used before.
If you want to, on Mastodon, you can own the building. And the door locks. Just start your own instance. It takes some tech know-how, but it’s possible here, where it wasn’t possible on the other networks. Good luck!
Kevin Teljeur ❄️@oatmeal Never not relevant. Feels like it needs a huge childbabymonster on top of the shiny tower, smashing it up.
Tiffany@oatmeal I remember the first time you posted this comic, feels like ages ago. It's interesting how little changed in that time and even more people got consolidated to big platforms 😅
Christina Sørensen@oatmeal nono but you don't understand what about the bad admins on the fediverse that did something bad I'm going back to musks dungeon with all my sextoys and you can't stop me haha get owned
Dave Dugal 🔒
@oatmeal I think you spelled 
wrong 😏
wrong 😏
(ง'̀-'́)ง TimmGleason🍖🍖@oatmeal These Federated services feel like the re-birth of the old internet. Re-inventing chat, email, mySpace....
anniethebruce@timmgleason @oatmeal It's making me pine for the days of IRC and USENET.
Ertain@oatmeal Yeah that's about right.
Benjamin Spider 🏳️🌈@oatmeal But have you had your own stolen content suggested to you by Facebook? Because I have. :-/
Roni Rolle Laukkarinen@oatmeal Ooooh you're here 
Kelson's Sorta Old Account@oatmeal Ah, the classics.
John M Flores@oatmeal
Ha ha - adding #ALT for #Blind/visually-impaired:
Headline: Reaching people on the internet
Frame 1
Title: How it used to be:
Character Matt stands in front of modest building labeled "Matt's Website" with flags "Email", "Netvibes" (sp?), and "RSS" flags flying from roof. Matt says, "Come on over! I've got some neat stuff here." as a small group listens.
Frame 2
Title: What Happened:
Matt's modest building is now dwarfed by a giant skyscraper with Facebook logo on it. Sign above entrance says, "Welcome, new active users!" The small group of characters rushes over to Facebook while Matt says, "Actually, follow me over there. It'll be easier for us to reach each other."
Frame 3
Title: Where we're at now:
Matt stands outside Facebook building, alone. His modest building stands in background Sign above Facebook entrance says, "Door locks ENGAGED." as Matt yells at building, "Hey, I made some new stuff. Can you show it to my followers?"
Frame 4
Sign above Facebook entrance says, "PROMOTION! Boost this post for $10,000 and reach a fraction of your followers!" Matt looks at building and says, "Fuck."
Etaski@oatmeal I remember that... and so glad you're here! 
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Bvan@oatmeal RSS till the end!
#!/usr/bin/jason_howard@oatmeal That's right, we traded freedom for something our parents could use easily.
Lon@oatmeal It'll get better :] In any case, your email list works great!
Skunnyk@oatmeal Heeey, Netvibes ! I worked there !
Nick Fox-Gieg@oatmeal @alebianco What's the second thing on "Matt's Website"--"Netvibes"...? Just a general description of the times, or was that a specific thing?
Lutin Discret@oatmeal I prefer the version including the Facebook notice asking you to pay so people who clicked to be notified, will be notified: exposing the blatant lies of the platform and Zucky selling you the community you built.
P.S: please add alt texts
Karl Voit 
@oatmeal Oh, and I've used that comic strip in my slides of my article about #webforums and gated communities in general: https://karl-voit.at/2020/10/23/avoid-web-forums/
maksu@oatmeal Do you happen to remember when this was originally created? Feels like I've seen this a loooooong time ago
Hyrulian_rider@oatmeal it’s insane. Granted Mastondon has a learning curve but if you put the time in and just learn a bit it’s actually seems pretty cool. 
Olm-e@oatmeal ho yes, this is a legend here already ... (some ppl copied it !! ) specially the screengrab version with the proposal from meta to distribute it more advantageously ;D
🏰Christophe S.❄IceEnchanter🦢@oatmeal Oh, you came by here !
This is my favorite educational strip when I try to explain the situation about corporate media to non-tech people :) I am fan of it <3
Welcome to the Fediverse, you found the exit, as well as the entrance to come back to a better home, interconnected again, while preserving you home website :)
whonose123@oatmeal very appropriate now
Cap@oatmeal I didn't know you were on the fediverse!
Tay
Oldmanmonza
Guy James@oatmeal the 'old' internet still works, we just have to go back to actually using it and not getting distracted by bells and whistles (and billionaires)
ElvishSkittles 🏳️🌈@oatmeal I'm just happy to see you here.
Rai Aren 🖖✨📚🇺🇦