With all the tiktok drama I have been telling people Mastodon is still here and kicking!!

[jesuisatire@tupambae.com]

@IveyJanette

I left #Threads in 2025 because the harassment towards Blacks was intolerable.

On threads inside threads?

whoopsy, well threads is blocked over here so it's not part of the #fediVerse!
Ohh no, wait!

fediWikiHistory wrote:

It was threads that harbored the tribal racists dumbf**king goones in the fedi, that's why we defederated them, together with asocial. truths and gab'em by the di***ks!

So we are the good guys and they are long gone ..

What a relieve!

btw
I'm also on friendica, like to say "here I am on friendica", but this server hasn't activated bluesky, at least yet, and now that it's so ICY over there it probably never will.
Isn't there a black bluesky node, like the first real decentralized independent bluesky node?

@bitpickup @futurebird @NickGates @taylorlorenz

[linebeck@social.vivaldi.net]

@taylorlorenz I still think the biggest problem for Mastodon is that no big accounts promote it on the platforms they already use. I see so many YouTube videos where people link to their accounts on X, TikTok, Instagram etc. If those creators came to Mastodon and also directed their audiences to Mastodon, it would bring a lot more people to the platform. We need more big accounts here which would bring their followers to Mastodon.

[markkrueg@social.treehouse.systems]

@taylorlorenz There needs to be cooperation between PeerTube, pixelfed, and mastodon dev. A user should be able to:
1) download one app
2) choose from a short list of servers with an “advanced” button for more
3) be registered in a minute
4) able to upload and view videos, photos, and toots immediately
Right now the fediverse is too fragmented. Even an expert user can’t figure out how to use their existing mastodon account to comment or like a PeerTube video.

[iveyjanette@mastodon.social]

@jesuisatire @bitpickup @taylorlorenz @futurebird @NickGates MAGA infiltrated. I felt safer here on Mastodon,where there's no algorithm and I can block.

[ted@social.foolish.computer]

@taylorlorenz Lots of people have said that the concept of federation is challenging to newbies, and I think that better migration tools (that allow you to discover *and* move to servers easily) is going to be critical to fixing that challenge. After that, we need to figure out a better way to communicate the incentives to being on particular instances. The big servers are actually helping but I share the hesitation to make them the default, so let's make it more obvious why you'd want to move.

[fathermcgruder@jorts.horse]

@taylorlorenz Search is broken and needs to be fixed. Client-side, private, personal algorithm tuning would be nice too. #Mastodon #FeatureRequest

[gwfhegel@theforkiverse.com]

@taylorlorenz Just tell people to sign up here, for theforkiverse. Easy. Don't need to know anything about Mastodon, the fediverse, decentralization, or quantum physics.

[alienghic@timeloop.cafe]

@futurebird @Phosphenes @bovaz @aurochs

And more relevant to the rest of the conversation.

I bet the lemmy/reddit style forums would be an easier UI for new people to get involved with, as it has a voting system to surface "better" content.

As an example it's a pain to find good peertube videos, and at some point I stumbled on
https://lemmy.world/c/peertube
which is a feed of well made peertube videos.

I bet it'd help if the fediverse both did do more curation like that, and also told people to go look at the curated boards to find people relevant to their interests.

[ryanc@infosec.exchange]

@Viss @taylorlorenz ah, yeah, the no alt text complaints are common. I just decided to add alt text or not post.

[viss@mastodon.social]

@ryanc @taylorlorenz im waiting for actual people who are visually impared to ask for it. because so far all the screaming is done by dipshits doing virtue signaling - and its those virtue signaling dipshits that are chasing people away

they think theyre "helping".

they arent.

[realn2s@infosec.exchange]

@Viss @ryanc @taylorlorenz
That's a strange argument.

What you are basically saying is only affected people are allowed to fight for their inclusion?

Only black people are allowed to point out anti black racism, only women are allowed to point out sexism, only LGBTQ people are allowed to point out discrimination?
Everything else is virtue signalling ‍️?

[jesuisatire@tupambae.com]

@IveyJanette

Prompt:
ChatGPT, where do people from the afro american community feel safer in social media spaces like the fediVerse and why?

@futurebird @taylorlorenz

[jesuisatire@social.tchncs.de]

jeSuisatire neindochohh ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ (@jesuisatire@social.tchncs.de)

Attached: 1 image #justSayin #mastodon @satire@tupambae.org

Mastodon (social.tchncs.de)

@bitpickup @IveyJanette @mina @futurebird

[bitpickup@troet.cafe]

@IveyJanette

#blackMastodon
https://social.tchncs.de/@jesuisatire/115935782222161571

@NickGates @futurebird @taylorlorenz

[janikvonrotz@fosstodon.org]

@jan @taylorlorenz Remember when TikTok was banned, people started learning chinese. And now TikTokers are yery annoyed by Oracle.

The idea of ownership and unrestricted access matters. Don't you agree?

[amazing_joeyy@mastodon.social]

@gbargoud @taylorlorenz cool, thanks!

[unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz]

@taylorlorenz

I think it's possible that the best way to help people find their feet here is via people inviting their friends.

First, before you even mention it to them, figure out what'll be a good instance for that person, and (if they have a smartphone) a good app for their phone.

Then help them to get set up (easiest if it's someone you see in person), and introduce them "my friend joined, here's what they're into".

I think that's probably always gonna work better than, like, trying to advertise it big-scale.

#Fediverse #FediMeta

[ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org]

@futzle LOL she did not reply nor did she hit "star" as one traditionally does to acknowledge you have read the reply. 🤪

[viss@mastodon.social]

@realn2s @ryanc @taylorlorenz to date, zero people who are visually impared have asked me to put alt text on a meme

but several dozen people who are claiming they are "fighting for the visually impared" have been fucking assholes to me because i didnt put alt text on a meme.

and your argument trying to equate me calling out people who are obviously virtue signaling with people who are racist has earned you a block.

[erikcats@dice.camp]

@hfinyow it's ofc just an idea, needs a lot of work, as long as 4-5 screens of this lead to a relatively short list of suggested servers