Sonya Mann ✅Both articles about Mastodon (Sarah's on Vice and Casey's on The Verge) are missing a ton of context about the Fediverse that came first, and the community schisms. From Casey's piece it would be easy to think that Mastodon was invented from whole cloth; it wasn't.
To be clear, there are good parts of both articles (especially Sarah's). They're just both incomplete. We need a full-length magazine feature to explain all of this, tbh.
kslstn@sonya I'd rather have some good onboarding for new users. The community is awesome so far, but Federated/instance are basically people like me asking how things work
@kslstn it would be nice to have better onboarding, but that won't come from news articles =/
@sonya actually what we need is basic income for the whole world and free healthcare
@kslstn I can get behind that
Kat Lo ✅hey omg I'm a social media researcher o/ i would love to chat with you all about this (for, well, research, more rigorous representation in publications, and extreme personal curiosity)
I also write guides and onboarding materials for tools and platforms, I can help translate community norms and operationalize into expectations/rules if they're interested. \o/
@lolkat @maiyannah @kslstn feel free to hit me up with questions — my personal email is [email protected]. Bear in mind that I'm fairly new here, I just pay attention