Mainstream media is having a really hard time trying to cover Mastodon because they keep trying to treat it like a commercial social media company. It’s kind of hilarious.
If you are a news web site you have to do the bare minimum research, something so awfully redacted just makes me think it was poorly written on purpose to confuse readers.
I think simplification in this case is okay. Such simplifications help Mastodon gain new users. You don’t expect people to take time to understand all this stuff. And let’s not pretend that this is easy-peasy for non-technical person.
You are not making it simple, just more confusing in the long term, switching terms left and right, it’s one thing for you to explain your good old friend doing some simplification and another to be a company writing about it and do such a poor work.
Exactly. It may be “cringe” for us who actually know/care about all this stuff, but for a news agency trying to reach a wide audience, its beneficial to simplify some of the more technical details. They’ll learn too, in time. Before long, people will be all comfortable saying with “instance” they are on. We just need to give it some time.
I can’t read this…
Mastodon is a software and a network, it cannot be a “rival”… it is like saying the Internet is a rival to T-Mobile.
Nope, it is called instances. Servers are computers running services on a network.
There are no "channel"s on the network, just instances.
Again, a person can say something, company representative can, but a network does not say anything.
OMG. Such a culture shock for some :)
Mainstream media is having a really hard time trying to cover Mastodon because they keep trying to treat it like a commercial social media company. It’s kind of hilarious.
Their brains cannot compute people making things without a profit motive involved.
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If you are a news web site you have to do the bare minimum research, something so awfully redacted just makes me think it was poorly written on purpose to confuse readers.
I think simplification in this case is okay. Such simplifications help Mastodon gain new users. You don’t expect people to take time to understand all this stuff. And let’s not pretend that this is easy-peasy for non-technical person.
You are not making it simple, just more confusing in the long term, switching terms left and right, it’s one thing for you to explain your good old friend doing some simplification and another to be a company writing about it and do such a poor work.
Exactly. It may be “cringe” for us who actually know/care about all this stuff, but for a news agency trying to reach a wide audience, its beneficial to simplify some of the more technical details. They’ll learn too, in time. Before long, people will be all comfortable saying with “instance” they are on. We just need to give it some time.
Bro you are like that Linux/gnu meme. Give it a rest.