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