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@atomicpoet totally agree, tho that is also where I can see where @gruber is coming from - the "simple" thing. Even some of my more technical friends struggled to understand how to get started with the Fediverse, but they could figure out how sign up to Mastodon. Hopefully collectively we can come up with some appropriate verbiage - or perhaps it's just a matter of time. If you dropped the word 'tweet' into a casual conversation even 10 years ago people would look at you funny.

For the record I've already got an account for my side project up and running on mstdn.social - I may share it when there's something there worth sharing.

@atomicpoet @fediversenews There's definitely something to what @gruber is saying. With manual account approval on mastodon.social and it being pushed as the default, I'd love to see the abandonment rate... Perhaps it's different when signing up through a phone? But getting someone all excited about trying a new social network is hard enough. Now they have to retain that excitement for an unknown amount of time, and then care enough to engage at some later date... Not much fun...

@atomicpoet @fediversenews I tried to sign up to mastodon.social for a side project today - still waiting on the manual account review. I went to mastodon.social because this is just a side project and I wanted to peek the new features, but I should have preferenced one of the smaller servers on principle.

Manual approval of accounts over on mastodon.social these days. I know they probably get inundated with spam, but if you're on a roll trying to get a project up and running, seems it might be quicker to set up your own instance... But this was only supposed to be a side project hahaha

@Polychrome exactly... Falling well short of any promises so far. I'm also not sure why people are so quick to forgive and forget... If the definition is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result, what was the word again?

@atomicpoet or just a well established interconnected social network based on a truly open protocol, vs an unproven, siloed service that hasn't yet delivered on its promises and is run by a known bad entity.

@atomicpoet I don't understand why people aren't leaning more on ActivityPub, and investigating pre-existing implementations for maximum compatibility where it doesn't suffice. We have the W3C ActivityPub standard, is there a way to propose inclusions where they are required?

@EricMahler The Assassination of Jesse James soundtrack from Nick Cave & Warren Ellis https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=da-S57RjkTU - an absolute masterpiece

@requiem yup... People really don't spend enough time reflecting on their actions... Probably because it requires taking responsibility, and it's easier to just hand that over to someone else then spend all day moaning about it...

@anildash I love the Price fan bit, but I lose interest in whatever I'm reading when I see the word "extremist."

@shoq @atomicpoet @davetroy You did specifically call it out tho. Is there a better license they might have used to lesson your suspicion? It seems to me when there's bad actors (and like you I do think BlueSky are smelly actors) they will be bad regardless of the license. The MIT is a net positive for humanity.

@mpmilestogo@ohai.social just want to say I love reading your toots and blogs. I'm pleased to have you back on the Fediverse!

@shoq @atomicpoet @davetroy there's nothing shady about an MIT license. Mastodon has already been used in this way (Truth Social, and more). This is an issue with bad actors with bad intentions, not the MIT license.