My current way to interest people to join us: The Fediverse is more like local politics, with small communities discussing things. Centralised networks like Twitter, TikTok, instagram etc are more like national politics, with loud mouthpieces shouting over everyone else.
This mental image helps me in understanding why the influencers fail here and they of course think that means that the fediverse must be a lost cause while we commoners happily chug along and enjoy our little street parties ;)
I tried to find something like astronaut with Mastodon, mastodonaut?, but I don't know.
But I like fedinaut.
Yes, I totally get the logic. It is just that I didn't find at first that mastodonaut roll off the tongue very well in french.
But on a second thought, yes, it does sound nice in french and so I'm adopting "mastodonaute" in french.
I will writing to the Académie tomorrow in the morning.
There is probably something similar in german. In french there is internaute for the one who navigates the internet.
It is an old word from, I think, the "information highway" era.
"I am a member of the federati" which I'm reading in Jean-Luc Picard's voice.
Jan Wildeboer 😷
Michel Patrice