Notices by Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)

I edited this toot, as there were many people pointing out it sounded "annoyed" or "scolding." That was never the intention, and I am sorry it came off that way. :sadcat1:

That said, I do believe language matters a great deal: "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world."

I am not trying to convince you to always use one term over the other (I too sometimes use "Mastodon" in that context). Okay, maybe a tiny bit.

But mainly, I am trying to give broader context. :blobcatuwu:

I do not need to explain that no single entity run by a small group of people can appreciate experiences and needs of every single person out there.

So we need more diversity in projects, to get more diversity in how the whole network evolves to accommodate all the diverse groups of people joining it nowadays as part of #TwitterMigration.

In other words, we could do with recognizing that on a technical level this place is a bit more… #Fediverse.

(see what I did there?)

:blobcatcoffee:

And that's not just about some technical capabilities of this or that software, but also about power dynamics (yes, they exist on fedi too, to some extent) and about building a network that can cater to anyone's needs and where everyone can feel safe.

As much as Mastodon-the-software-project is a fantastic piece of software and is by far the most popular instance software on fedi, identifying the whole network with a single project alone means that project gets to decide what is possible.

In this very thread I have seen responses from people who are using Pleroma or Misskey or Calckey or Friendica as their instance software. This very thread shows exactly how this is a bigger network than just Mastodon.

You can use a Mastodon app and connect to a Mastodon instance and never even know that person you're talking with is using, say, Fedilab with a Pleroma instance.

Recognizing that is, I feel, useful, as it broadens our imagination about what's possible. :blob_derpy:

@heluecht wow, read through them now and… oh how things have changed!

We do have a go-to open decentralized social networking protocol now. And it's actually breaking into the mainstream. And also: I would definitely not use some of terms I had used in that slide deck today.

@cwebber @atomicpoet @axbom @darnell

@heluecht yeah. The quality of it tells me I even might have authored it, but honestly can't be certain at this point. 😅

But I do remember posting it to my Diaspora account way back when.

@cwebber @atomicpoet @axbom @darnell