If you’re reading this toot there’s a pretty high chance you’ve asked yourself ethical questions about your social media use *and that’s why you’re here*
You’ve likewise probably got concerns about Meta and Threads
But the 90-odd % of your friends you left behind on Facebook, Insta etc. likely don’t have those concerns to the same extent as you
Mastodon has to win on user experience *as well as on ethics*. We can’t just berate the Meta users
Agreed. The bar has been set for what a micro-blogging site should be by Twitter. That is of course now history having been in large part dismantled by Elon.
The apparent stubbornness of the powers that be here to at least trial some of the features that people miss from Twitter is a real missed opportunity.
Somewhat of a catch-22 as to draw the crowd you need the crowd situation as well. I think a great opportunity that's being missed is for news outlets to establish their own instances. I don't know if there's been outreach from the Mastodon side or not, but that seems like a no-brainer.
Jon Worth
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