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I live in the NW corner of the US, a long walk from the Canadian border. I do plan to move there someday.

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atomicpoet, to fediverse
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Tech Press don’t understand the , so how can they understand its growth?

To hear them talk, most of them believe that and the Fediverse are one and the the same. Some of them go so far as to call the Fediverse the “Mastodon network”.

Which means that they don’t have a clue about what the Fediverse entails, nor how it has grown.

Case in point: between Jan-May 2023, and its forks grew by 300,000 accounts. No one in the Tech Press reported this.

Okay, perhaps they didn’t know because the bulk of growth happened in Japan. But still, this is fairly important to know since Misskey is now responsible for generating the bulk of Fediverse content. Even so, Tech Press think the Fediverse is about Mastodon.

And now, and are experiencing lots of growth, with both collectively gaining 100,000 users in a week. This is quite a noteworthy event since the is part and parcel of dissension on – a pretty major Big Social platform.

Does the Tech Media report on this? Nope. But again, that’s because they don’t understand the Fediverse nor what it entails.

Then Meta signal that a new project they’re making, (a.k.a., ), will be joining the Fediverse. There’s even screenshots that show this app interacting with remote Fediverse servers.

But instead of reporting about how this will affect the existing Fediverse, press such as the say this is an altogether different social network than Mastodon.

That’s right! Tech Press don’t even realize P92 will be joining the Fediverse – a social network that already exists!

Is this all ridiculous? Yes.

But this is why we have to be forthright about what the Fediverse is, what it entails, and why it all matters.

We, on the Fediverse, must be our own Press.

@fediversenews

cmonster,

@atomicpoet @fediversenews
We need to be able to clearly explain to non tech press and people what the difference is between one fedeiverse platform and another. Unfortunately, I don't think that's going to be done very well until people not already in the come over to the analog of their corporate platform of choice. Or one combines the types elegantly. If that is already done well, I don't know about it.

is easy to explain because it acts so much like Twitter. is like YouTube so again easy. Same for . But the masses haven't had a reason to run from the corporate versions of those last two yet so they and other fedi alts aren't newsworthy to the mainstream yet.

If I understand correctly it's trying to incorporate content from all of the fedi platforms more seamlessly than mastodon does. If that's right and it is done well, that may be how we best explain it... By sharing it working as intended.

cmonster,

@TG_Esq @fediversenews @atomicpoet

Ooof. That's just not helpful. I've resisted trying other fedi offerings because the time to figure them out didn't seem worth it. I already had Mastodon and how different could they be? (Peertube and Pixelfeed are not my jam). I'm still not convinced calckey is all that different but maybe I'm wrong? It's hard to tell until I'm ramped up on it...

cmonster,

@atomicpoet @fediversenews @TG_Esq

When I go to channels, this is what I see. Clicking any of the other buttons at the top yields nothing. Am I missing something?

cmonster,

@atomicpoet Is there a way to see Global Channels? Since you called them out as something for me to explore to get to know calckey. I'd love to see working examples, try to get a sense of the benefits of this over other fedi offerings. How do I explore them on other servers if there are none on mine and I can't join calckey.social?
thanks

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