Fediverse Champion

Very good points! Ultimately, we’ve got to rid ourselves of corporate social media.

BTW, if you haven’t seen the EFF article on the Fediverse it makes similar arguments.

Lastly, it’s incumbent on all of us to evangelize the fediverse whenever and wherever we can. Most people aren’t aware of the open social web and its myriad benefits.

Using the term “Open Social Web” instead of fediverse or mastodon seems to help a lot. TechCrunch and other news orgs use the term more nowadays and Meta mentions it as well as the about us on Bluesky.

This is the most common reply to any mention of onboarding newcomers, but it’s not helpful. It’d be much more productive to hear specific criticisms so we can address them.

• Is clicking the big “Join” (the default server) on joinmastodon.org really that big of a hurdle?
• Is a firehouse home feed required to engage users from the start?

Correct.

Here’s a thread about who owns and funds Bluesky.

Open AI changed to a for profit company in a heartbeat and these folks can too.

More worrying is who owns them and their funding sources.

That’s the plan!

We need to go out and engage users and let them know they have choices.