Mastodawn

TheGentYYC Dec 4, 2022

#Mastodon can be seen as 'a new way of doing things' for Twitter emigres. Another word for that is #Innovation. If we want to know how populations adopt innovations we refer to the #InnovationAdoptionCurve.

Throw rocks all day at those remaining otherwise decent Twitter folks that've not yet found their way to Masto but according to #TheCurve it's no mystery why: the needs of the #EarlyMajority are not yet met (it's the same for climate stuff) /1

When #Mastodon acquires #EarlyMajority the #DeathOfTwitter is only a matter of time.

Status as of today: the #MastodonPioneers (Innovators) came here #PreBirdSiteMeltdown & built this world. Meltdown strikes & early #BirdSiteEmigres have arrived (#EarlyAdopters).

The wide majority of decent Bird Site humans (#EarlyMajority) remain on Bird Site, awaiting a clear alternative complete with #WholeProductDevelopment & #WellEstablishedReferences. /2

TheGentYYC Dec 4, 2022

Seize the #EarlyMajority and Bird Site is all but dead because the #LateMajority's prime motivation is #FOMO (fear of missing out/getting left behind) and can reliably be counted on to grudgingly follow the Early Majority. As for the #Laggards nobody anywhere should spare them a thought for any reason.

Thus Bird site's transition to dank backwater of racism/hatred/ignorance is complete & it will not be able to sustain itself. #BirdSite will die /3

TheGentYYC Dec 4, 2022

We identified our target (#EarlyMajority) & know what motivates them to switch (#WholeProductDevelopment & #WellEstablishedReferences).

Question 1: what features does Masto lack that many of us noted upon 1st arrival & would be welcomed by the existing community & new members (I have ideas)

Question 2: how do we get our big name emigres to start evangelizing for Masto on Bird Site? (I have ideas) /4

This is eminently do-able. Bird Site can be killed

Damien Murtagh Dec 4, 2022

@TheGentYYC the feature I missed the most from the bird site is auto-translate.

@TheGentYYC I've been mulling over posting a Mastodon Thread using the Technology Adoption Life Cycle as scaffolding to infographic [sic] my observations...

And happily someone, you!, beat me to the punch!

Yay!

I would re-introduce the "Crossing the Chasm" moat as a missing step.

The "Crossing" is NOT a technological one based on features or missing features or feature requests.

It is a Psychological one.

One by one, people are joining Mastodon

@TheGentYYC Further, Encouraging "Laggards" to remain active or even JOIN the bird site for Fear Of Missing Out, is useful.

Laggards in one category beget Early Adopters in another.

You can't have the Good Faerie without the Wicked Witch.

Slicktor Dec 6, 2022

@TheGentYYC
1. Direct Messages. End to end encrypted. Not readable by admins or other parties.
2. Set up their own federation that they can use as a place for them to interact with their audience and moderate.

👻☠️ BAMahrab ☠️👻Dec 14, 2022

Co-Creation for the win!

@TheGentYYC To get to the Early Majority stage, my guess is one of the big guys, Microsoft, Google or both, is likely to adopt ActivityPub (against the will of those originally here prior to Musk's takeover of the bird site) and implement it as part of their existing mail/social products that way corporate email addresses automatically become fediverse handles. Tumblr, Flickr + new for-profit startups will also adopt the protocol with niche products.

@TheGentYYC There will be a squeeze for the existing fediverse players. That's why I think there's a race against the clock for the Mastodon developers to implement the missing features and grow fast before the big guys swoop in for a piece of the action and before the competing closed platforms like Post catch up.

Adam Dec 5, 2022

@citytechie @TheGentYYC I suspect that any effort to co-opt the fediverse like that will result in widespread defederation. They'd be forced to run their own silos.

Another great thing about fedi is that it wants those users but doesn't need them. Musk and Bardin desperately need eyes to sell to corporations - they'll die without them. We'll be fine. The pressure to compromise on values or through shortcuts is absent here.

@breakfastmtn @TheGentYYC You might be able to defederate small startup networks like Post or right sites like Gab or Truth Social but you really can't ignore the big guys. They have billions of users and defederating from them would relegate the existing fediverse to irrelevance going forward. The existing indie fediverse will need a way to engage with big tech in order to thrive + have influence at standards bodies.

Adam Dec 5, 2022

@citytechie @TheGentYYC I don't think there's general opposition to their involvement in fedi, but that's not the same as them co-opting it. Preventing that was the primary goal of creating Mastodon in the first place. It would relegate them to their own walled garden.

Google already tried to leverage their massive user base to brute force social media domination. It didn't go well and I don't think they have much appetite for Google+ 2.0.

Adam Dec 5, 2022

@citytechie @TheGentYYC FWIW I also don't think Microsoft has enough lifeforce to do something so bold ;)

TheGentYYC Dec 5, 2022

@citytechie that's interesting. I hadn't really thought of that

tomorrow's avery Dec 5, 2022

@TheGentYYC jessie what the fuck are you talking about.

TheGentYYC Dec 5, 2022

@shitpostalotl I'm not Jessie, so there's that

tomorrow's avery Dec 5, 2022

@TheGentYYC sir thats a meme. also why did you put so many hashtags in your post.

mataliandy Dec 5, 2022

@TheGentYYC
Many people find it too hard to figure out how to get started w/mastodon. Someone w/the skills should create a SIMPLE landing page with some checkboxes to help narrow down choices. They check off preferences, a list appears w/short blurb about each & link to the policy page.

They choose the most appealing one. This loads a SIMPLE, CLEAN signup page that does remote account creation on that server, and sends user there on submit. [1/2]

mataliandy Dec 5, 2022

@TheGentYYC
Once they get there, they're asked if they're leaving twitter. If so, debirdify is loaded, but with nicer UI, and they can get their follower file. Since they're already on the server, there's a button to bring them to a modified version of the import page, containing just the upload button and a button for choosing the file. They choose the file, click upload, and get brought to their home page.

Ms. Opossum (now @ratnegative)Dec 5, 2022

@TheGentYYC I was a "pioneer" when Mastodon still had that scuffed-ass 3 column layout lmao.

calc.exe Dec 5, 2022

@TheGentYYC Stop pretending like mastodon is the only thing on the Fediverse, like the Fediverse hasn't been around for a decade already, and like the Fediverse will end up like Twitter.