Will SchenkI've been thinking about some bad analogies that people are making about Mastondon and the fediverse https://willschenk.com/fragments/2023/bad_analogies/ #Mastodon #SocialMedia #parasocialmedia
All of these are flawed
* Twitter as a town square
* Mastodon is confusing
* Twitter is mainstream
* Mastodon is a Twitter replacement
* Freedom to run your own instance is dismissive
* Principles are ideological zealotry
* Social media is social