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"The media misreporting is annoying, but what is more annoying is to write about Twitter and Mastodon as if they are somehow locked in a head-to-head contest."
Company X vs. Company Y... fight! This is a standard tech press narrative. Which might be why so much coverage focuses on Mastodon-the-company, rather than the fediverse as a realisation of the Social Web.
The relevant precedent isn't FB vs. MySpace. It's MTV vs. the web.
🎧 #TheB52s took their name from the Georgia slang term for the bouffant beehive "wig lady" ("Phyllis") styled for Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson.
Michael Stipe spent time with the band when they were all in Woodstock and later told #MTV, they used colanders and aloe vera to set their trademark hairpieces!
"Girl from Ipanema Goes to Greenland" (1986)
🎬 #PaulTassie directed the film.