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 supportEsat Dedezade (Forbes)
like this
reshared this
rfg
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •꧁ wakest ꧂
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 likes this.
Fire Alarm Puller
in reply to ꧁ wakest ꧂ • • •꧁ wakest ꧂
in reply to Fire Alarm Puller • • •Lord Elektron
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Kingsley Bugarin PLY OAM 🇦🇺
in reply to Lord Elektron • • •@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
Mastodon hosted on mastodon.socialben moretti
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •DansLeRuSH ᴱᶰ
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •xs4me2
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •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
J M Berntson
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Oh no. The Mastodon misspelling curse continues, after nearly 25 years.
(I joined the Power Rangers fandom in 2001 and it was a glaring issue there.)
Georgiana Brummell likes this.
Georgiana Brummell
in reply to J M Berntson • •@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 ⁂ likes this.
El Duvelle
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Georgiana Brummell likes this.
astroPug
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •I’ve noticed that this “mastADon” misspelling is a thing. Seen it a few times on Reddit. I wonder if the drunken goblins that run autocorrect on our devices have now learned it that way for some of those users after repeated typos.
My drunken goblin has some favorite “corrections” for sure
like this
Georgiana Brummell and irelephant like this.
Georgiana Brummell
in reply to astroPug • •the esoteric programmer
in reply to Georgiana Brummell • • •Fabio
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 likes this.
Quicky
Unknown parent • • •Omar Antolín
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •S.T. Veje
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •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.
Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to 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
joinmastodon.orgtivasyk likes this.
reshared this
Marleen Stikker, ꧁ wakest ꧂, Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️⚧️♾️🇺🇦⧖, small circle 🕊 in calmness and Ruben reshared this.
Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to 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?
like this
2something and clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 like this.
reshared this
jtonline, Ellyse, Rob 🌱, florian, Ω 🌍 Gus Posey, Lori M Olson and Amici Is Me 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 reshared this.
Pete
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Every day is extra.
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •You are completely on the right track, Elena. Also a good time to point out how much I admire your enthusiasm! ❤️
From a recent trip to Germany, I brought home a Fairphone 5. Let me know if I can help out with a photo of Fedi apps on such screen.
Kristof
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Radote Chill Pépère 🌶️
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Michel Patrice
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Corb_The_Lesser
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Pen
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •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.
Diego de la Hera
in reply to Pen • • •Wikimedia project page
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to 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
Samantha Xavia likes this.
reshared this
Angelo Massaro, Dan Neuman 🇨🇦, Michael / マイケル, florian, Jan Penfrat, Raff Karva, Jools, your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦, shrmanator, Max, Tofu Musubi and Tiago F reshared this.
Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟♂️
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Stefano Marinelli
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •D1re_W0lf ⁂
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Sarah Peck 👥
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • •@Elena Rossini ⁂
Nice! I know you have to make decisions about which to display, but it would be great to include Friendica, as many folks are searching for a Facebook alternative. Having Pixelfed, Mastodon, and Friendica represented handily displays alternatives to major Meta products.
Quicky
in reply to Sarah Peck 👥 • • •Oblomov
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Efexor Zolpidem
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Sirupp likes this.
Pirate (ret.) Ironneck 🇺🇳
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Highland_Shark
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Antonio Cambronero
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Total Sonic Media
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Sarah Peck 👥 likes this.
꧁ wakest ꧂
in reply to Total Sonic Media • • •Total Sonic Media
in reply to ꧁ wakest ꧂ • • •DB Schwein
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Does the Lemmy App really have that awful white pixilization around it??
The photo is grand! I hope wherever you post it you can add all the possible iterations of fediverse and mastodon to the tags so it comes up in searches from here in out.
Total Sonic Media
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Christ van Willegen
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •@monospace
bovaz
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Dear Fedi friends, thank you for all your boosts and messages today – it's been a RIP my mentions sort of day not just on Mastodon, but on Pixelfed too. Wow.
I'm delighted to hear you liked my smartphone "stock" photo of Fedi apps. Tomorrow I'll add it to my website with clear instructions (re: CC license) so that hopefully anyone can download it and use it.
I'm off to pick up my child from pre-school, so I'll be offline for the next few hours. Thanks for all your feedback & support! ❤️
Martin Dufort
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Funny how the Pixelfed logo is so similar to the Polyend logo: polyend.com
Which one can first?
Polyend • Polyend
Polyend@BjornW@mastodon.social
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Tormod
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Looks great Elena!
Happy that you're still with us. Death by tripod is such a silly way to go 🙃
wendinoakland
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Taran Rampersad
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Blint
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Thanks for your enthusiasm!
Benny Powers 🇮🇱🦁
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Goldmaster
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Radio Azureus
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •I got this link from your blog post; of course I shared it immediately
#Fediverse #SocialMedia #UniversalLove
Gray Miller
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Paolo Melchiorre
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •El Duvelle
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Ged Maheux
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Vincent 🌻🇪🇺
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Thomas Lemarchand
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •They corrected their mistake. I'd say they deserves an A now 🙂
3dmvr
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •informapirata ⁂
Unknown parent • • •For Lemmy you can take a look here: join-lemmy.org/apps
For the rest, who knows if there are web apps in ios like for Android. Friendica for example on Android allows you to install the web app. On ios I don't know
@mkj
Lemmy - Apps and Libraries
join-lemmy.orgSilmathoron ⁂
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •mkj
Unknown parent • • •Great start!
And surely you must have a tripod (or even just a monopod) somewhere in the attic? 😉
@informapirata
informapirata ⁂
Unknown parent • • •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
Chuck Miller
Unknown parent • • •xs4me2
Unknown parent • • •D1re_W0lf ⁂
Unknown parent • • •I've been using Mlem ( mlem.group ) and it "does it job" but there's always room for a better app. 😁
Mlem for Lemmy
Mlem for LemmyMichel Patrice
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •The stock photo shows the major social media apps.
Let's think about all the free publicity that these guys get. They have share buttons with their logo on on every news paper website, every news broascaster website and numerous other websites.
The media that are dependent on these networks have fed the beast that is killing them.
Benjamin
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Whenever I see it written like 'Mastadon' I think of Sacha Dhawan's delivery of "Spy.... Master" in Doctor Who.
Which doesn't mean anything except that I definitely belong on Mastodon.
KB Sez
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Can we talk #Lemmy ?
I’d like to get away from #Reddit but I’ve heard sketchy things about the people behind Lemmy and I haven’t seen any other platform coming up better.
What’s your take?
Sebastiaan Ammerlaan 🇳🇱
in reply to KB Sez • • •@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.
Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼
Unknown parent • • •Arctic For Lemmy
getarctic.appren (is fairy eyelashes) 🎶
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Sibshops
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Slyphic
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •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?
Michael Downey 🧢
in reply to Slyphic • • •@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
Josh SteimleRhesusPieces
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •BBonkers
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Ben Fulton
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •"Hey! Remember Mastodon has two O's in it!"
"Oh, sorry. Join Mastadoon today!"
nicolas ⁂
Unknown parent • • •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 😀
Fabián Rodríguez 🛡💾 🇨🇴 🌴
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Goldmaster
Unknown parent • • •@mediawiki
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spe…
This is it here. Its Wikimedia commons. A Wikipedia account is needed.
Login required - Wikimedia Commons
commons.wikimedia.org