Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸
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This is inspired by @kissane investigation asking folks at Bluesky why they left Mastodon. It's pretty clear, at least in that initial November wave, that a lot of people were quickly made to feel quite unwelcome. The tech stuff is relatively easily fixed, but if Mastodon has a reputation as a place where you can expect to be told you're too dumb to figure out "the rules" then that's on us, it's a big problem, and we need to fix it.
@kissane all of which is to say:
1) We should be encouraging people to get their own domain early in the onboarding process.
2) Fediverse software should support bringing your own domain. Takahē does it; others should follow suit.
3) Fediverse software should support both Webfinger accounts ([email protected]) and DNS hostname accounts (user.domain.example). That way, everyone gets a domain name, free, right away, but somewhat less under their own control.
Shoq 🌿In 2014, I said this on Twitter ⏵
"I wish more people would understand that holding the media accountable is just as important as holding government accountable."
It's probably the biggest reason I have the followers I have. But I wish we all heeded me more a bit more back then. I was more correct than even I knew at the time.
Erin KissaneI migrated servers last week and boy did I develop some strong opinions about migration and the as-yet only semi-fulfilled promise of account portability.
If you're thinking about moving instances—or you'd like to know yet more about my dreams for better networks—here's a post you might want to read:
Chris TrottierThe re-brand of the Fediverse as "Mastodon" has created big problems -- problems that were both predictable and preventable.
For one thing, the honeymoon period for Mastodon is over.
People aren't willing to ignore its flaws anymore because it's the one alternative to Twitter that has traction.
Now people want creature comforts.
But guess what? Because the entirety of the Fediverse is branded as "Mastodon", people are more likely to migrate to Bluesky than elsewhere on the Fediverse.
@ariadne @becomethewaifu @jaseg ah, OK!
I think you might have a very mistaken idea of how much money flows from the W3C to editors and chairpersons.
We don't get paid by the organization at all.
There is usually one paid staff member to help coordinate for WGs, but not for CGs.
Some people do standards development as part of their jobs, but it's rare for the social web, and a lot are enthusiastic amateurs and volunteers.
Alessio MaffeisIt’s clear to me some folks don’t know/understand the difference between protocols and services.
#Threads is (allegedly) going to support federation via the #ActivityPub protocol, meaning that users on other services implementing the protocol, like Mastodon, will be able to interact in some form.
That doesn’t mean you’ll be able to use Threads with your Mastodon client. Clients don’t implement the protocol directly, they instead use Mastodon’s API which is specific to Mastodon.
LiteralGrillSerious question, boost for maximum responses please? Trying to learn something here
Would you be worried that someone was trying to scam you or was fishy if they didn't use a Gmail address for their email? For example, they used Yahoo, Tutanota, Proton Mail, etc?
Yes
No
Poll ended at .
Pete Prodoehl 🍕Because you know what? If you don't follow people, reply, engage, and post... the only one who loses out is you. There is not quarterly earning report or stockholders or sales leads on Mastodon that are worried about "hitting their numbers" by shoving ads in your face. We are people here, looking at other people. That's it.