If you had to use a simple, verb-centric sentence to describe Mastodon, what would it be?
If you had to use a simple, verb-centric sentence to describe Mastodon, what would it be? 93 comments
For example, TikTok's tagline is "Share your best videos". Twitch's is "Watch your favourite streams". Mastodon's? @Gargron "Here is a pic of my cat, also here is a pic of me as a catboy" @spla Obvious doesn't mean bad, but "posts" is too vague, every app has posts. "Share your thoughts", but is it a note taking app? "Share your thoughts with the world", closer to reality as a publishing platform. @Gargron Join the decentralized fediverse or something like that. I can't help compare it to twitter and theirs is "Share and discover everything that's happening right now" but I think mastodon should lean into the fact that it's still quite niche, but decentralized. @Gargron Talk with your friends, without corporations trying to turn you into a revenue stream. Own your own social space. Own your own conversations. (I may be influenced by discovering that Twitter is currently tending to hide any links to Patreon, which is kind of terrible for someone whose main gig is 'drawing whatever the Muses ask her to, with the generous support of her patrons'.) @Gargron maybe something in the direction of "share to the many or the few" could be a thing? When they say "human infrastructure," think about Westworld's meat robots using the bodies of the guests as railroad ties. @Gargron "Connect with your friends, disconnect from the kleptocracy" I am sure there is a better term than kleptocracy, but there is the gist. @icedquinn@blob.cat @Gargron@mastodon.social verb-centric? @rysiek @NicolasConstant I'm convinced that "social media" is too generic because that's the entire Social Networking category on the App Store @Gargron @NicolasConstant "Microblogging for Human Beings", then? But also, Mastodon can talk to every ActivityPub instance out there. So one gets to experience all sorts of social media, from Pixelfed, through Pleroma, to PeerTube. So it's defendable, I'd say. @Gargron something to the tune of โactually built to be good at social.โ if you were able to stand any of the editorializing in my guide, โSocial networking, back in your handsโ became VERY meaningful for me. if anything, I would remove โback.โ mastodon is the future, not just a nostalgic plaything. @DavidBlue I just think social networking is too vague because it includes live streams, instagrams, tiktoks and so on. @Gargron "express yourself freely" or similar. I'd definitely include some reference to freedom. I missed the "verb-centric" part.... "Mastodon: go out of control ;-)" a twitter punch line: Lewd: @Gargron Meet your community. (sorry late response, I'm not at home and have been offline!) |
@Gargron There is quite a bit of weirding around here.