Imagine explaining this headline into somebody in 1990.

“Allergy butter” is my new name for Jif. Thanks.

There have been some platforms that combined form factors like Friendica and mbin

Can someone ELI5? What is the problem that this solves?

YikYak, GroupMe, Ready Education, Remind, UniBuddy, Viva, etc. Etc.

Reposting this here from the discussion in [email protected]:

There’s a real argument for a Mastodon use case for news organizations, governments, and colleges.

If they’re just seeking engagement, then they have to wait for the platform to grow. But this isn’t about that.

Many news organizations already have comment sections on their website, and they want to push out information on breaking news as quickly as possible. They need a platform to do those things. So, a lot of them use Facebook for embedded comments on the page and Xitter to breaking news. The thing is that they could use mastodon for both, and run their own instance, which would give them total control and not be at the mercy of Musk or Zuck.

Colleges use expensive proprietary messaging apps for students, clubs, and teachers that they can monitor and adjust to fit their needs. Mastodon offers that.

Governments sometimes end up in legal hot water due to freedom of information, etc. that comes with corporate social media. Mastodon offers the freedoms and controls necessary to disseminate vital information and to allow or reject posts as required by local laws.

The point is that Mastodon is an effective public facing communication system that also allows internal controls by the host.

The only publicity and marketing budget that the fediverse has is us, so any opportunity to promote it is our job. Government, education, news. These are the vital areas to promote.

That’s exactly right.

That’s the point of the post.

That’s the point of the post. I wish I knew how to make money from the knowledge that this is the high point and it will crash in the future. Someone out there is making that money.

I don’t. I thought that was the point if futures options. You are betting on the price going down. It’s a good thing my broker doesn’t let me trade them I guess.

Very cool! It’s a pretty specialized use case, but still awesome to see.

It struck a balance between good design, features and lack of bloat

Outlook enshittification is why I switched to Thunderbird over a year ago. It’s just gotten consistently better. Highly recommended.

Is that still working?

Thanks for the review!

{Astronaut “Always Has Been” meme}

I signed up months ago when it was first announced and just got my account confirmation.

Cool now do linux

Edit - I’m a dummy, I’m thinking of the drive not the VPN.

It looks like in this case the answer was a little deeper than a simple search, but no worries - you set me in the right direction. I’ll add the solution to the post.

Thanks, I’ll check it out.