Gabe RiveraAssorted thoughts on Mastodon and the Fediverse. (Thought I'd offer them up here for people to tell me I'm wrong before recycling them on T*itter):
👍 Some "communities" are rather well-represented here. Some unsurprising tech crowds present in large numbers: future-of-web types, people into open source and open standards, and industry-skeptic/social-justicey folks. The infosec crowd is fairly-well-represented here too. And as I said before, basically every notable blogger from the year 2005 is here!
👎 Startup/venture folks are not here in large numbers. (Yes, @hunterwalk and @mgsiegler are present!) Overall the chicken/egg problem is not cracked for these folks.
😂 Meanwhile, it's kinda funny how crypto people are entirely absent in the Fediverse, given their professed love of decentralization. (Perhaps they were not not so much into decentralization but rather recentralization of wealth around themselves!)
Ev WilliamsI talked to one crypto-centric friend who doesn’t like the fediverse because it’s not the *right* way to decentralize from a technical perspective. 🤷♂️
@ev Yeah, I mean, sure, it involves centralization at a smaller scale, but, the advantages should be clear too, and it's tentatively working!
Proxima Centauri@gaberivera @ev Crypto people are now in Nostr:
https://mstdn.social/@proximacentauri/109791758852631025
They HATE Mastodon, Jack uses the wording "Mastodon't".
(Why can't I insert my same images to new posts in Mastodon)
Proxima Centauri (@[email protected])
Attached: 2 images AS @[email protected] SCHEMES WITH #Mastodon #JACK is planning to kill Twitter with Nostr Game ON!