@elipariser I'm glad to see these kinds of convenings, but one of the big misses here is in framing this as being about "mastodon". I doubt that mastodon will be (or wants to be) the platform that does a lot of these more consumerized things; part of what we should be doing is teaching people that other tools might arise to meet these needs.

@anildash @elipariser I think part of it is that we havent really found a word yet that describes the microblogging platform side of the #fediverse, that easily groups things like mastodon/pleroma/misskey/etc together. Fediverse isnt the right term either, because a lot of the conversation isnt particularly relevant lets say owncast or peertube. I've been using microblogging platforms for the time being, but using that term makes me feel like a pretty big dork tbh