@paco @BenAveling it is just a stupid electronic device

[paco@infosec.exchange]

@ottaross Right! I swear that happened with LinkSys. The fact that people can run OpenWRT on it gives them access to a whole market that they would not have otherwise.

[ottaross@mastodon.social]

@paco agree! You can't buy the kind of word-of-mouth promotion that positive community chatter brings. OpenWRT certainly does that.

A bit of a push to ensure the Bose Speaker works with Home Assistant, and it would do well. I see it's selling at a premium over its orig retail price on EBay & other resellers.

[paco@infosec.exchange]

@maikel it would be one of the more expensive domains I own, but not the most expensive

[joninalbany@beige.party]

@paco that's an absurd chart. Here's how you compare to who knows how how many users of an app most people have never heard of that is fitness related. Probably mostly used by fairly athletic people.

[louis@theforkiverse.com]

@Hicsumus @paco searchfork and hardengine were floated.

[aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au]

@Hicsumus @paco The podcasters include @Casey of Platformer fame, and also @kevin who's the NY Times tech reporter.

So very prominent and respected tech journalists.

They've written a lot about the problems with social media over the years.

So as an experiment, they decided to try setting up their own social network using Mastodon, and encouraged their listeners to join.

So far, around 2000 listeners have signed up.

And I personally hope it works

#theforkiverse

[ahimsa_pdx@disabled.social]

@paco
Thanks for the link! For some reason every time I see that #Forkiverse hashtag I think of this:

[ottonorse@theforkiverse.com]

@paco here we are! #forkitup #forkiverse

[rossgrady@dood.net]

"Three podcasters who’ve spent years critiquing social media companies try to build their own small alternative social media."

LOL OK, that's *one* incredibly disingenuous way to say "we stood up a Mastodon server." SMH.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@paco/115873487066426300

[mxjaygrant@triangletoot.party]

@rossgrady vibes from those folks are pretty rancid

[paco@infosec.exchange]

@OttoNorse And you are all forkin welcome here!
#forkiverse

[dmeissner@social.vivaldi.net]

@paco Thanks, I was wondering what that was.

[diazona@techhub.social]

@paco It will always be practically inconceivable to me that that's a real experience that real people have Good luck to him!

[diazona@techhub.social]

@ahimsa_pdx @paco As you should!

[paco@infosec.exchange]

@diazona Me too. I grabbed the first one that ever fell for my schtick and held onto her for 30 years so far.

[diazona@techhub.social]

@paco ️

[Guest]

@aj

But it is a Mastodon instance right? So all users are part of the Fediverse with all the problems that the Fediverse has.

@Hicsumus @paco @Casey @kevin

[paco@infosec.exchange]

@visionaire

Right: it is a #Mastodon instance. So all #theforkiverse users are part of the #Fediverse with all the benefits and potential that the Fediverse has.

@aj

[Guest]

@paco

Then, to be honest, I don't understand all the fuss that's being made there.

@aj

[paco@infosec.exchange]

@visionaire It’s just new people discovering the fediverse. No more, no less. Like when #fuckaas came online or any other server that has a sudden spike in membership. There’s no fuss. Just the frothy enthusiasm of new people trying something new and hoping it will be good.

I’m trying to be enthusiastic right back at them. I want to make them welcome. Help them stay. I’m following a bunch so they have followers and see interactions. I boost their stuff so they get exposure. I’m trying to make their feeds less empty.

I’m trying, frankly, to give them the opposite of the finger-wagging, grouchy welcome that new users have often gotten. One thing at a time. Get them in and enjoying themselves. Gradually introduce them to the culture without putting them off.
@aj