Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/

[ciarani@mastodon.green]

@Ruth_Mottram Great piece. Thanks for sharing it.

[elena@aseachange.com]

@Ruth_Mottram what a fantastic post, wow!!! I got goosebumps at the end... and I was so happy to see my Fedi photo in use ❤️​

[christo_459@mastodon.me.uk]

@miturian @Ruth_Mottram

Me too does anyone know his mastodon name?

[albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz]

@Ruth_Mottram

I'm so glad someone put this into words:

"Bluesky had a bunch of “stuff” but they’re trying to capture that 2008 Twitter lightning in a bottle which is a giant waste of time. We’re never going to go back to pretending that tweeting at politicians does anything and everyone there is desperately trying to build a “brand” as the funny one or whatever. I want news I don’t want your endless meta commentary on the news."

[albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz]

@Ruth_Mottram

The description of Threads got a good chuckle:

"Threads was worthless because it’s the most boring social media website ever imagined. It’s a social media network designed by brands for brands, like if someone made a cable channel that was just advertisements and meta commentary about the advertisements you just saw. Billions of dollars at their disposal and Meta made a hot new social media network with the appeal of junk mail."

[albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz]

@Ruth_Mottram

The #fediverse, and hence Mastodon, as the real deal:

"Actual human beings were able to find each other and ask direct questions without this giant mountain of bullshit engagement piled on top of it."

I'm all for it.

[albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz]

@Ruth_Mottram

On the #fediverse :

"I never expected to find my news from strangers on a federated social network that half the internet has never heard of. I never expected a lot of things. But there's something quietly beautiful about a place where people just... share what they know. No brand deals, no engagement metrics, no algorithm nudging you toward rage. Just someone who spent twenty years studying Arctic policy posting a thread at 2 AM because they think you should understand what's happening. It's the internet I was promised in 1996. It only took thirty years and the complete collapse of American journalism to get here."

I did, because I was part of that early internet. So glad it's back, and made by us, again, and not corporations.

[mrpdaniel@mastodon.green]

@Ruth_Mottram
'I prefer my narcissism farm to table' 😆

[groxx@hachyderm.io]

@Ruth_Mottram looks like: https://c.im/@matdevdug/116183052079063047

[leanderlindahl@social.folkdata.se]

@Ruth_Mottram its really weird that DR (Danmarks Radio) still aren't in the Fediverse.

[elena@aseachange.com]

@leanderlindahl @Ruth_Mottram how do we make it happen?