@oatmeal - i still use your RSS. :)

@oatmeal I felt like that with blogs and RSS when it was everybody writing and not consolidated into big boxes

@oatmeal you can replace the f with the bird for actuality.

@oatmeal Evergreen content

@oatmeal Glad to see you on the #fediverse !

@oatmeal good thing you're here then 🤗

@oatmeal I shall continue to boost your cartoony goodness for the price of free as it continues to amuse me greatly 😁

@oatmeal sounds about right

@oatmeal You've posted two things already and neither included a joke with the word "toot"? Clearly you are not the real Oatmeal.

@oatmeal that hit home at the time.. 25k facebook page total waste of effort... welcome to tooting!

@oatmeal picked it like a nostril!

@oatmeal I think about this cartoon often. It's appropriate now: we shouldn't be swapping one walled garden for another. The Adverse basically took all the conversations that were happening on people's blogs, and consolidated them. With the Fediverse, there's the possibility of taking that back, given more widespread use of ActivityPub.

@oatmeal So happy to see you here! Also it's the opportunity to tell you I'm a big fan of your work since years (I know I'm not the only one but still happy to tell it out loud! 😂)

@oatmeal see also API’s, which used to be this super cool way of tying stuff together all over the internet and now is basically just another monetized monstrosity that’s heavily controlled (for good reason in some cases).

@oatmeal The blogosphere will rise again.

@oatmeal good to see you here

@oatmeal thank you for being here.

@oatmeal so happy to read you here (and by email, and on your site ❤️)

@oatmeal Nice to see you here. I just played Caveman Poetry last weekend. Thanks for making fun games!

@oatmeal nailed it!

@oatmeal I still use RSS.

@oatmeal Hi there, glad to see you on Mastodon! Love your comics.

I don’t know if you’ll see this message or not, but Mastodon is different than other services you may have used before.

If you want to, on Mastodon, you can own the building. And the door locks. Just start your own instance. It takes some tech know-how, but it’s possible here, where it wasn’t possible on the other networks. Good luck!

@oatmeal F*cebook is the false prophet

@oatmeal I still don’t understand how people were voluntarily giving up control over their audience in favor of social networks. They basically lost their own little communities and gave them to multimillionaire owned money grabbing machines.

@oatmeal Never not relevant. Feels like it needs a huge childbabymonster on top of the shiny tower, smashing it up.

@oatmeal I remember the first time you posted this comic, feels like ages ago. It's interesting how little changed in that time and even more people got consolidated to big platforms 😅

@oatmeal I think you spelled :twitter:​ wrong 😏

@oatmeal I havent been on Facebook for 10 years. I cant believe its still running. A picture of my page being private holding a cat and a 36 inch measuring stick is enough for a conviction.

@oatmeal Yeah that's about right.

@oatmeal These Federated services feel like the re-birth of the old internet. Re-inventing chat, email, mySpace....

@oatmeal Ooooh you're here :meow_hearteyes:

@oatmeal Ah, the classics.

@oatmeal But have you had your own stolen content suggested to you by Facebook? Because I have. :-/

@oatmeal Sounds about right.

@oatmeal I remember that... and so glad you're here! :ablobcatbongo: 💗

@oatmeal RSS till the end!

@oatmeal That's right, we traded freedom for something our parents could use easily.

Oh, I shared this great piece from this joint once here a long time ago and it has already been received with enthusiasm. Never realized you've been around all the time - but it's truly consistent and I'm glad.
All the best, @oatmeal!

@oatmeal this has never been not true on social Media.
Happy to find you here as well. And happy that you have RSS on your homepage! Much better than any SM feed!

@oatmeal I miss the geocities crappy frontpage made gif loades webpages era :sadness:

@oatmeal It'll get better :] In any case, your email list works great!

@oatmeal Oh god we're so damn happy you made it to mastodon. XD We just wish more people would join XD

@oatmeal Heeey, Netvibes ! I worked there !

@oatmeal @alebianco What's the second thing on "Matt's Website"--"Netvibes"...? Just a general description of the times, or was that a specific thing?

@oatmeal I prefer the version including the Facebook notice asking you to pay so people who clicked to be notified, will be notified: exposing the blatant lies of the platform and Zucky selling you the community you built.

P.S: please add alt texts

@oatmeal Oh, and I've used that comic strip in my slides of my article about #webforums and gated communities in general: https://karl-voit.at/2020/10/23/avoid-web-forums/

#webforum

@oatmeal Do you happen to remember when this was originally created? Feels like I've seen this a loooooong time ago

@oatmeal it’s insane. Granted Mastondon has a learning curve but if you put the time in and just learn a bit it’s actually seems pretty cool. :blobBongo:

@oatmeal ho yes, this is a legend here already ... (some ppl copied it !! ) specially the screengrab version with the proposal from meta to distribute it more advantageously ;D

@oatmeal Oh, you came by here !

This is my favorite educational strip when I try to explain the situation about corporate media to non-tech people :) I am fan of it <3

Welcome to the Fediverse, you found the exit, as well as the entrance to come back to a better home, interconnected again, while preserving you home website :)

@oatmeal Fakebook screwed so many people by deleting profiles that so many people had spent endless hours building. I’ll never rely on fakebook again. I continually tell people to leave it. They manipulate everything on there, even which comments they let you see or not.

@oatmeal very appropriate now

@oatmeal I didn't know you were on the fediverse!

@oatmeal 😂 🤣

@oatmeal :ablobcatrave:

@oatmeal the 'old' internet still works, we just have to go back to actually using it and not getting distracted by bells and whistles (and billionaires)

@oatmeal I'm just happy to see you here.

@oatmeal Yup, #Facebook is diabolical that way! I don't spend much time there b/c of things like that.

@oatmeal finding out that Mastodon has built-in RSS was amazing, some of us still use feeds every day.

@oatmeal go back to twitter

@oatmeal 😂 So true, Would love to see a comic with FB and TW as dumpster fires overseen by Zuck and Musk and the Boston Dynamic robot makes fun of them for being too robotic.

@oatmeal Has anything ever been so true?

@oatmeal FUCK YEAH! Oatmeal!!

@oatmeal #Insightful

@oatmeal bring back rss for the masses.

Also… never too late to resurrect FOAF 😏

@oatmeal Truth. FB is one of the world's biggest bait-and-switch operations.

@oatmeal describe your fucking images please

@oatmeal I've already seen more of your posts in the last two days than I have in two years 🫤

@oatmeal #truth

@oatmeal@mastodon.social Yep ... when your posts started disappearing it was round about the same time that I realised what a shitshow FB was.

@oatmeal oh yes! I feel this, so very much.

@oatmeal And the audience only gets a fraction of the content they want to see 💸📈

@oatmeal I miss my Oatmeal fix. Happy to see you here!

@oatmeal love that the oatmeal is here

@oatmeal lol. yeah. remember that " LIke " economy? it was sort of a one way, give us your content and we'll charge you to have your audience back (vs the google model of we'll be on your content, and we'll give you a share of the rewards).

@oatmeal the internet is a room full of people talking and very few people listening.

@oatmeal fb said my site was abusive, selling my art.

@oatmeal yeah. I miss when comics has sites and that that was part of the comic’s personality.

@oatmeal Cannot express how happy I am to see the Oatmeal here!

@oatmeal I love your work, however I can't boost it as the mods on my instance are very firm about about using alt text on images. Have you thought about the #Accessibility of your work?

@oatmeal
OMG please follow me! There’s no way you would have followed me on Twitter (I’m not *that* cool) but I feel like maybe I’ve got a second chance at being accepted by the cool kids now. 🥹

@oatmeal ...if only the rest of the world understood this FACT.

@oatmeal just a reminder that Facebook single handedly destroyed independent digital comedy this way:

https://www.vulture.com/2018/02/how-facebook-is-killing-comedy.html

@oatmeal Image description: Guy made a website and moved his followers to facebook. Then facebook shut their doors on him and he can't call his followers anymore.

@oatmeal as a small business owner I feel this everyday!

@oatmeal welcome sir!

@oatmeal Love this

@oatmeal @memetzgz so spot on and yet so painfully predictable. :)

@oatmeal it really do be like that. Their economic model is not in your favor

@oatmeal

Hey Oatmeal, how are you?

Followed you on Facebook, then Facebook got dumb, then I didn't see any of your posts anymore, then I stopped using Facebook, then I discovered you here.

What a story!

@oatmeal (looking in your profile for your website)

That’s cheating, I subscribe to email notifications and I have it bookmarked in browser(s), but your promotion could use more self…

@oatmeal Facebook used to be great for organizing events, now people I invite rarely even see the invites. It has become terrible.

@oatmeal An especially relevant comic right now.

(Btw, please consider adding Alt-text to your images. We have a lot of blind and partially sighted people here who would love to read your comics too!)

@oatmeal Forgot about that Netvibes flag 💚

@oatmeal Glad to see you in the Fediverse! Still enjoy exploding kittens with friends 🙂

@oatmeal as a web designer and digital marketeer (hate that phrase) of 20 years…. Yes. Yes. And YES!

I spend so much time trying to explain this to clients. I’m just gonna show them this cartoon now.