Back at you

Maybe there is little one can do other than get involved in the initiatives and continue to improve them. If you take Linux as an example, it never really had a moment. It just quietly inveigled it's way into almost all server side systems. It's just better, so in time, it won out. It can take a lot of time though, and there is always the risk of being extinquished by the dark forces. This is why the advocacy for some PR and boosterism, though agree that this is a double edged sword.

Valid point. Certainly one of the reasons that open public systems have difficulty competing with the shiny corporate alternatives. But, as you say, do we want them to? Is there some middle ground? Food for thought, thanks for sharing your perspective.

Do you remember back in the 2010s, when if you talked to a non-technical user, they would often say, "Well, I opened Google on my laptop and looked it up." You say, "So do you mean a web browser? Do you know which web browser?" They go, "Web browser?" With a question mark. That's the kind of thing we're dealing with now in social media. The general public and much of the tech industry just assume that any given social network is a site that is controlled centrally. That just isn't the case with Mastodon, so it's a sea change and will be hard to communicate.

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Yes, they know better. But it is also incumbent upon Mastodon to communicate the facts effectively to the media.

This was, and still is, an opportunity to discuss the benefits of true decentralization as well as praise the swift response of Mastodon engineers.

Love Mastodon, but in the area of corporate comms they need to step it up.

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