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When I opened up Lemmy this morning I could not believe my eyes. The top story was a headline from Forbes stating:
« ‘Open Source And Ethical’ TikTok, WhatsApp And Instagram Alternatives Could Transform Social Media ».

The article mostly focused on #Pixelfed and did a fairly good job explaining how #ActivityPub works. But they spelled #Mastodon « Mastadon » over and over again with no links to it. Yikes.

B for the effort, but please editors do better!

forbes.com/sites/esatdedezade/…

‘Open Source And Ethical’ TikTok, WhatsApp And Instagram Alternatives Could Transform Social Media

As major platforms face mounting scrutiny over content moderation and user privacy, a developer's vision for ethical social media draws support
Esat Dedezade (Forbes)
#mastodon #activitypub #pixelfed
in reply to Lord Elektron

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Kingsley Bugarin PLY OAM 🇦🇺

@ruisdeeltje

If it was deliberate it won't stop people finding Mastodon.

If you put the incorrect spelling into google the top search result is still

mastodon.social

second is the wikipedia article about mastodon.

But, I am using a plugin to block the google AI crap.

Mastodon

The original server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profit
Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social
@Lord Elektron
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

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xs4me2

great and not so great, it illustrates why we are in the political fascist mess we are in here right now with the main stream media…

Either they have no clue, no educated opinion or they simply don’t care and they are acting as if stupidity is a virtue.

#bigtech #mainstreammedia #desinformation #stupidity

#bigtech #Desinformation #stupidity #mainstreammedia
in reply to J M Berntson

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Georgiana Brummell

@J M Berntson @Elena Rossini ⁂ hYou're talking about modern writers. They're lucky they know how to use punctuation and some sort of proper grammar, let alone how to spell things correctly! But if it makes you feel any better, here is a quote from 1907 about newspapers. Unlike most of my grammars, it was written by an American, so I cannot say whether the same held true in England. Sadly, though, I can say that today, the quality of writing, and especially speech at the BBC is terrible in most cases, though there are some exceptions.

"Our newspapers are almost universally characterized by provincial and vulgar diction. (There are a few honorable exceptions.) An expression like " Rev. Clifford has proven himself a hustler" is no more justified by the wide currency of similar expressions in the newspapers than " has went " is justified by wide currency in conversation. General newspaper usage has nothing whatever to do with good English usage." EDWIN C. WOOLLEY

@Elena Rossini ⁂ @J M Berntson
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Georgiana Brummell

@astroPug @Elena Rossini ⁂ Even as a grammar prescriptivist, I used to misspell that! The difference is that I am totally blind and use a screen reader (I only know the letters of words if I go over them one at a time), and I'm not writing professionally. But even if I were just writing to my readers on Dreamwidth or here on Friendica, if it were an essay or I wanted to promote something, I would certainly ensure that I knew how to spell it!
@Elena Rossini ⁂ @astroPug
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Quicky

@xs4me2 In defence, I don't think that's the reason. It's being reported on now because the official apps are publicly available having been in beta-limbo forever. Following their release, exposure on TikTok and insta resulted in user numbers rocketing. Tech media began to report on it, and now news media, as a result of Pixelfed entering the conversation. News media aren't likely to report on a beta app used by a relatively negligible number of people.
@xs4me2
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

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S.T. Veje

It seems they've fixed it, thankfully.

That said, I find the MastAdon misspelling interesting, because to me it's obvious that it's not spelled with an A because I'd pronounce that differently, but apparently a lot of speakers pronounce these two spellings the same. I wonder if it's native English speakers generally, or perhaps to do with dialects.

in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

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Elena Rossini ⁂

Please join me in a round of applause for @elduvelle who, after reading my toot, reached out to the Forbes journalist, pointing out the "Mastadon" typo.

The typo has been fixed and the article is even linking to joinmastodon.org now 🥳

Mastodon - Decentralized social media

Learn more about Mastodon, the radically different, free and open-source decentralized social media platform.
joinmastodon.org
@El Duvelle
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

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Elena Rossini ⁂

It just occurred to me that the Forbes article uses a stock photo of a hand holding up a smartphone with a bunch of apps from mainstream, for-profit social media... even if the piece is about the #Fediverse.

So on my to do list for today: recreating a similar photo showing Fediverse software instead. Like, how my actual phone looks like.

As a photographer, I feel it's my duty to do this.

I will give the pic a CC BY-ND license. Thoughts?

And fellow photographers will you join in?

#fediverse
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

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Pen

Thanks, great idea! I strongly suggest the CC BY-SA license instead. This would allow:
1. Others to build on your good work, such as by swapping out, or adding, an app icon on the smartphone screen with another Fediverse app.
2. Still require attribution to you *without* implying endorsement.
3. Allow improvements to accessibility such as translations.
4. Allow easier incorporation into other things such as embedding the image in slides for a presentation about the Fediverse, etc.
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

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Elena Rossini ⁂

My best shot at a stock photo for the #Fediverse, showing its most popular projects.

Please show some mercy, I am not a hand model (obvi) and my masking skills are a little rusty.

If some photographers would like to improve it, I could share my original photo and screenshot.

Hilariously, when I opened the tripod my bracelet got stuck in it and I semi-panicked for a few moments because I was home alone... with a tripod stuck to my wrist. Thankfully I managed to free myself 😂

#FediLove

#fediverse #FediLove
in reply to wakest ⁂

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Total Sonic Media

@liaizon - yeah, I think Diaspora has some advantages over Friendica - it has an official mobile app for both iOS and Android, smoother sign up process, less cluttered and less confusing gui, and easier to categorize contacts and target posts. Its main disadvantages to me is that posts are not editable after you make them, and that it doesn't use ActivityPub, only its own protocol. My hope is someone combines the best of Friendica and Diaspora for yet another platform.
@wakest ⁂
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informapirata ⁂

non credo che nessuno abbia mai fatto una fotografia a un cellulare acceso per pubblicarla. L'unica possibilità di ottenere un risultato decente è quella di appiccicare lo screenshot in post elaborazione
Poi magari l'iPhone ha uno schermo così figo che puoi anche evitare di fare questo lavoro, ma credo che la cosa migliore sia lo screenshot
in reply to @kbsez@mstdn.social Has Moved

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Sebastiaan Ammerlaan 🇳🇱

@kbsez I mean, yes, the main developer seems like he supports fascist dictators, which is uncool. Left-wing, at least, but still uncool.

But unlike with Meta and X, the political views of the guy behind the software have no repercussions on what people use the software for, as far as I can see. That's up to the instance owners.

Still, it's been enough to scare people away from Lemmy, which is in itself a problem—a more neutral stance would probably be more appealing to new users.

@@kbsez@mstdn.social Has Moved
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

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Slyphic

The article has corrected both those points, the misspelling and the lack of links. The new editorial process is publish first, have an editor look at it when they have time.

I caught a story on car radio this weekend, NPR, about the fediverse and they spent an inordinately long time mocking the name in the most derisive and childish manner, but did praise ActivityPub, Masto, Pixelfed, et al for being the only viable path forward for a free and open internet. Better than nothing?

in reply to Slyphic

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Michael Downey 🧢

@Slyphic It's not a news article from the news/editorial team, it's one of their "contributor" blogs.

joshsteimle.com/writing/how-be…

How Being A Forbes Contributor Works - Josh Steimle

I became a Forbes contributor in early 2013 and have written over 160 articles for the publication. Here are answers to frequently asked questions about how the contributor program works.
Josh Steimle
@Slyphic
in reply to Georgiana Brummell

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the esoteric programmer

moreover, I know for a fact that eloquence consistently mispronounces mastodon as mastadon, and I think it's not the only one, that's why blog posts on the sites of several blindness organizations had it misspelled for a while. Braille displays help here a lot, but the issue is that afew companies have a monopoly on braille technology, which in turn makes a lot of even medium quality equipment prohibitively expensive unless you're in highly developed countries, such as the US
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nicolas ⁂

If at some point you want to do an update, I quickly edited it so that it has the original Lemmy logo and the new/future Loops logo.

No hurry, maybe it can wait the new version of Loops being released, and maybe it’s easier just to retake an updated screenshot at some point of the future with whatever apps are relevant at that time. Simply got an itch to “fix” those 😀

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