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1. Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Dec-2022 09:05:30 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

   • Per Axbom

   A kind observation that exclusively calling this place "Mastodon" has a bit similar energy as saying "I just sent a GMail."

   "Fediverse" (or "fedi") is a more inclusive, general term.

   Mastodon is just one of many software projects that talk to each other to create this multi-instance social network:
   https://axbom.com/fediverse/

   (kudos to @axbom for this fantastic infographic!)

   There are blogs, Reddit-like communities, video instances and many more, all part of fedi.

   #TwitterMigration #NewHere

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   • Abandoned (doctormo@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Dec-2022 09:05:27 JST Abandoned

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     • Per Axbom

     @rysiek @axbom

     This is Free Software community management. It wouldn't be believable if it wasn't drenched in angst. 😉

   • Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Dec-2022 09:05:28 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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     • Per Axbom

     @doctormo ehh, there is some history and tension there that I am not going to go into right now. It's… complicated.

     @axbom

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   • Abandoned (doctormo@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Dec-2022 09:05:29 JST Abandoned

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     • Per Axbom

     @rysiek @axbom Terry Pratchett called it "lies to children". A simplified version of the truth which gets a child onto the next rung of the truth ladder.

     I'm happy to have people learn about mastodon, given that they have a much better chance of learning of the rest of the fediverse than if they went to post.

     Mastodon doesn't interfere with the fediverse brand. It's not trying to steal thunder. At least, no behaviour I've seen indicates that.