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
I think that's true for some extent, but the Swedish journalists, intellectuals and leftists I know who are still on twitter are there 'because everyone is there'.
So I think it's easy to focus too much on pututive technical changes when what is needed is simply a more relevant and bigger community. And that's linked to a better ux, yes, but when twitter became big it wasn't because it was user friendly but because it was relevant to connect with Arab Spring.
@jon @Loukas True. Often, mastodon evangelists come across a bit as Linux evangelists.
Most people don't give a shit that Linux is FOSS. Windows users just don't want the hassle of switching, and just want their computers to put as few obstacles between what they want to do and themselves.
It's the same with Mastodon. Most people just want to see cat pictures.
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