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Elena Rossini ⁂

The Future is Federated: here are my top 10 reasons why #Mastodon is the best social media platform there is: blog.elenarossini.com/top-10-r

Basically, a guide for "normies" attempting to convince them to join Mastodon and the #Fediverse

... with shout-outs to @ivory @IceCubesApp @phanpy @cheeaun @dansup

#TheFutureIsFederated #tech #socialmedia #FOSS #blog

25 June at 13:27 | Open on mastodon.social
9 comments
Michael Foster
Steven Hilton

@_elena @ivory @IceCubesApp @phanpy @cheeaun @dansup How do we get some high-profile people to abandon Facebook, Twitter, etc in favor of Fedi? The existing network effect of the legacy social media networks is hard to overcome.

25 June at 13:51 | Open on mastodon.online
Elena Rossini ⁂

@mshiltonj I know! And I've got a plan for it.

I will work on it this summer... and create a guide and an initiative that can hopefully be replicated/scaled.

The gist of it:
If each one of us brought 5 friends on here... and convinced them to bring 5 of their friends, and pledged to post actively and interact with each other for a month, we could get some momentum going...

25 June at 14:03 | Open on mastodon.social
anubis2814
@_elena @dansup @cheeaun @ivory @phanpy @IceCubesApp Friendica is better than mastodon, just has terrible marketing/naming. Has all the best features of nearly every single social media site ever made, AND it connects with diaspora which is where all the G+ folks migrated to.
Apparently Friendica sounds cool in French and German who are the largest users, but to English speakers it sounds like an even cheaper knockoff of friendster. Its also the oldest operating member of the fediverse and is 6 years older than mastodon. Its other weakness is that it does not take donations, only donations in time from devs so it takes longer to get things fixed but its reached a critical mass of devs now that have fixed and exceeded all the bugs that plagued it for so long.
@_elena @dansup @cheeaun @ivory @phanpy @IceCubesApp Friendica is better than mastodon, just has terrible marketing/naming. Has all the best features of nearly every single social media site ever made, AND it connects with diaspora which is where all the G+ folks migrated to.
25 June at 14:12 | Open on friendica.myportal.social
crossgolf_rebel on Calckey

@_elena@mastodon.social I can give you 10 more reasons why Misskey and similar services are much better than the limiting Mastodon.

But, of course, you're right about the rest and the Fediverse.


I can only advise you to test #Firefish #Sharkey etc. for a while, then you will realize where Mastodon puts all the shackles on

#Fediverse ​:fediverse:​

@ivory@tapbots.social @IceCubesApp@mastodon.online @phanpy@hachyderm.io @cheeaun@mastodon.social @dansup@pixelfed.social

25 June at 14:12 | Open on moppels.bar
pepecyb (Friendica)
Moreno Colaiacovo

@_elena Excellent post Elena, and I love your blog (both content and style)

Could you add Bluesky to the comparison? I think it's a valid alternative

25 June at 15:59 | Open on mastodon.uno
anubis2814
@_elena @dansup @cheeaun @ivory @phanpy @IceCubesApp I had no idea flipboard was attracting so many main stream influences and news sites until this post. It seems to be a more attractive site for the normies, possibly because they had prior interactions with it.
SOOOO many food bloggers
25 June at 16:23 | Open on friendica.myportal.social
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