Notices by Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social), page 4

And just so we're clear, mastodon.social isn't the instance that I run. But I doubt this bigot knows that.

Thank you for blocking not just me but my entire instance.

By blocking mastodon.social, you are Fediblocking yourself from the largest instance on the Fediverse.

Now 1 million people don't have to read your bigotry.

I appreciate it 😊🙏

https://socel.net/@ArtSavesUsAll/110285673477903409

If you want to onboard friends and family to the Fediverse, https://jointhefediverse.net is an amazing tool.

Made by @stefan, this site explains -- in easy-to-understand words -- what the Fediverse is, how it works, and what to try.

This is a must for everyone who wants to tell the world about the Fediverse!

@fediversenews

Jack Dorsey explaining exactly why no single company should own a social media platform.

Call me crazy, but if I was in Jack Dorsey’s position, I would have converted Twitter into a consumer-owned and worker-owned co-op.

Sell it to everyone who uses Twitter and works on it.

That model works for many successful companies.

But Jack Dorsey also still prefers that Elon Musk own Twitter instead of a bank.

Which is a wild thing to say knowing what we know now.

I just asked Jack Dorsey why he doesn’t donate towards helping ActivityPub.

Will he reply? Because I really want to know 🙂

My sides 🤣

Jack Dorsey says he doesn’t believe a company should own a protocol platform and distribution.

Glad to hear he regrets Twitter.

Sooo… when will Bluesky connect to multiple nodes?

Here’s how Jack Dorsey want to monetize Bluesky:

1. Subscriptions
2. Ads
3. Commerce/Transactions

Jack Dorsey says if AT protocol has a CEO, it fails.

I agree.

I guess Bluesky should decentralize soon.

At least Jack Dorsey doesn’t want to run Bluesky through a DAO.

Here’s what I don’t understand: why does Jack Dorsey pretend that ActivityPub doesn’t exist?

Jack Dorsey doesn’t want AT protocol to be capable of DMs.

That means they’re probably not coming to Bluesky either.

There's no Mastodon slump.

Sign-ups continue to increase -- albeit, not at the same rate as in November -- November was a spike.

While Monthly Average Users (MAUs) decreased since November, it's increased again this month (according to @Gargron).

But what's more interesting is that Half Year Average Users (HYAUs) is at a peak.

And we're very close to breaking 1 billion posts per month!

See chart.

https://mastodon.fediverse.observer/stats

The armchair pundits who talk on and on about Mastodon's non-existent "slump" -- which I've shown isn't happening in a previous chart -- aren't even considering the broader Fediverse.

Here's the Average Pixelfed Posts by Month.

Does this look like a slump to you?

But this chart for Misskey is even more interesting to me. This is
Average Misskey Total Users by Month.

The growth is absurd -- and it has been validated by multiple sources.

Misskey is part of the Fediverse, and it talks to Mastodon.

The tech press very much want to frame this as Mastodon vs. Bluesky.

But have they ever considered that if the protocol underlying Bluesky (AT protocol) ever took off, Mastodon could just use it—thereby talking to Bluesky?

It’s as though their narrative of “competition” doesn’t work in this situation!

The tech press would love Mastodon to fail and Bluesky to succeed.

Why? Because it fits very neatly into a pre-determined narrative.

Mastodon is supposedly made by a ragtag squad who flew too close to the sun.

And Bluesky is supposedly made by Silicon Valley—they’re supposed to win.

There’s nothing the tech press love more than an outcome that’s predetermined.

Predictably, people hate Snapchat’s MyAI chatbot.

That’s because Snapchat, like the rest of Big Social, is trying to replace people’s friends with AI chatbots.

From Snapchat’s perspective, I understand the motive. If someone prefers to talk to AI chatbots, it’s that much easier to lock them into their platform.

Except most people still prefer their own friends—and they don’t like it when AI comes between them and the people they love

https://mashable.com/article/snapchat-my-ai-reactions