When I opened up Lemmy this morning I could not believe my eyes. The top story was a headline from Forbes stating:
« ‘Open Source And Ethical’ TikTok, WhatsApp And Instagram Alternatives Could Transform Social Media ».
The article mostly focused on #Pixelfed and did a fairly good job explaining how #ActivityPub works. But they spelled #Mastodon « Mastadon » over and over again with no links to it. Yikes.
B for the effort, but please editors do better!
Please join me in a round of applause for @elduvelle who, after reading my toot, reached out to the Forbes journalist, pointing out the "Mastadon" typo.
The typo has been fixed and the article is even linking to https://joinmastodon.org now 🥳
It just occurred to me that the Forbes article uses a stock photo of a hand holding up a smartphone with a bunch of apps from mainstream, for-profit social media... even if the piece is about the #Fediverse.
So on my to do list for today: recreating a similar photo showing Fediverse software instead. Like, how my actual phone looks like.
As a photographer, I feel it's my duty to do this.
I will give the pic a CC BY-ND license. Thoughts?
And fellow photographers will you join in?
My best shot at a stock photo for the #Fediverse, showing its most popular projects.
Please show some mercy, I am not a hand model (obvi) and my masking skills are a little rusty.
If some photographers would like to improve it, I could share my original photo and screenshot.
Hilariously, when I opened the tripod my bracelet got stuck in it and I semi-panicked for a few moments because I was home alone... with a tripod stuck to my wrist. Thankfully I managed to free myself 😂
Nice! I know you have to make decisions about which to display, but it would be great to include Friendica, as many folks are searching for a Facebook alternative. Having Pixelfed, Mastodon, and Friendica represented handily displays alternatives to major Meta products.
Does the Lemmy App really have that awful white pixilization around it??
The photo is grand! I hope wherever you post it you can add all the possible iterations of fediverse and mastodon to the tags so it comes up in searches from here in out.
@_elena Funny how the Pixelfed logo is so similar to the Polyend logo: https://polyend.com
Which one can first?
Looks great Elena!
Happy that you're still with us. Death by tripod is such a silly way to go 🙃
I got this link from your blog post; of course I shared it immediately
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