All your answers are overwhelming! I don't have words for this...

Thank you 💞

1) Mastodon means no company owns this type of communication.

2) I want to see more implementations, more front- and back-ends, more instances. I want people to easily run their own and solve the discovery problem somehow. I want easy of customization.

3) "Comrades, I bring tidings of a better future!"

@maloki

@maloki not sure this will be helpful but anyway :D
1. What does Mastodon mean to you?
started as a way to access GNUSocial network. These days it is becoming my primary place to engage in social media as an artist if this keeps up.

2. Where do you want to see the project go?
Easier to host single user nodes and make it a bit more of content creation features. (profile themes and a way to filter posts by a certain user would be nice)

@maloki 1. A cozy social media place that seems to have evaded the common social media pitfalls that exist elsewhere.

2. On the technical side: a way for me to schedule toots and integrate accounts for different instances would be nice. On the community side: hmmm. Maybe some community events? People making mastodon instances with some specific purpose (RP, for example). Things similar to caturday, but perhaps more tuned to each instance's interests?

3rd one incoming.

@maloki

1. It means a new tool to communicate and share ideas with people around the world;
2. I think Mastodon should be a contrasting social network, avoiding fan clubs(the reason I believe TW is down now) dedicated principally to share ideas;
3. I never spoke about it yet, just want to see how far I go without it. I only know one person from other social networkings here.

#MastoTalk #MastoDev #Mastodon

@maloki
1 and 3. Mastodon is a twitter alternative that is more prone to interesting conversations because of the higher character limit; it is Free Software and can be self-hosted; it is federated and can be community-managed at a very low level. The data is not monetised, the privacy controls are spot on, and there are no ads.

2. I want to see privacy, a healthy and welcoming community, the capacity to migrate and delete an account, and a very easy instance setup.

@maloki my 2c

1. A worthy and appealing vehicle for displacing proprietary monolithic networks designed for vendor/advertiser control, with something that gives power to the user community to define their own environments.

2. Grow the network while maintaining protocol interoperability and maintaining the freedom of the software.

3. Either "here is a new alternative to Twitter which fixes some of the problems" or "Look at how this is growing, think about what this will enable"

@maloki

2. I want it to be used not only by tech nerds, but nerds in general. Normies too, eventually. 3. Great question. I say it's like twitter, only better. And then I explain what twitter is. And I say why mastodon is better: federation, better culture. And then I respond that I love the name as well. Follow up questions that people have are exactly 1., and the answer is: my one-stop for exchanging any ideas, both long- and short-term. Thank you

#MastoTalk #MastoDev

@maloki

1. For me Mastodon means taking back control. Of my data, of the UI, of the ability to decide who I associate with.

Everyone can run their own instance or sign up on one that they trust and decide what kind of atmosphere they prefer. Mastodon is open, so everyone can see how it works exactly. There is no opaque non-chronological timeline or advertiser pressure to confuse and herd users.

With hundreds of different instances amazing and varied communities can form.

@maloki
1. For now, Mastodon is something I use alongside Twitter, for more personal engagement. But also for making dumb jokes.

2. I think it's critically important to have account migration and some sort of cross-instance redundancy for account data (with ability to opt out), so that the mstdn.jp data-loss fiasco doesn't repeat itself.

3. Opensource twitterish where tweets are called toots, you have 500 characters, and no nazis. Decentralized like email. And it's exploding in popularity.

@maloki

1. A decentralized social networking platform free of corporate control, which does not mean laissez faire, but rather that individual instances are free to develop their own cultures and norms.

2. Develop a stable API, and support strong protocol standards, enabling and empowering alternate implementations and front-ends. Continued support for software freedom.

3. Software freedom and decentralization, but also complications of federation.

@maloki for 1., i think that it's a pragmatic effort at decentralization using well-established client-server federation techniques and building on the prior art of gnu social is the striking thing.

continuity with certain kinds of established working pattern might well be a major lever for change. (and _protocols matter_.)

2. stay aggressively open. stay interoperable. keep leveraging stuff that is known to work. forget about the kinds of scale that drive facegooglemazon.

@maloki Hi Maloki. :) First, it's great to see you guys really embracing the momentum. I'll try and be concise since I'm sure you're getting flooded:

1. Social media that is defined by meaningfulness instead of commercial interests or unmoderated nonsense.
2. Others have said it, but accessibility is going to be the big hurdle I think. So: design, instance communication, etc.
3. Right now I just try not to complicate it as I'm still learning it myself. I make it sound exciting!

@maloki

1. It's a democratized social media protocol with oodles of potential. Algorithmic networks inhibit social change - they weaken connections between people by drowning out public interest messages in a sea of like-bait posts and ads. Currently, political organizations, nonprofits, and artists are unable to cheaply and effectively reach their followers - change that, and lots more can change. And, it's resilient! Any mistakes we make now still build the future network.