Here's my first Mastodon post!

@hpod16 It's easy. If European politicians start posting on fediverse first, X last or not at all, journalists will follow, and other people too.

@hpod16 It's easy. If European politicians start posting on fediverse first, X last or not at all, journalists will follow, and other people too.

Here's my first Mastodon post!
My mission out here? To understand and promote Mastodon, the only large European social media platform (to my knowledge).
How can we make more Europeans come to the Fediverse?

@hpod16

Good music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nXi9zueZhY

Here's my first Mastodon post!
My mission out here? To understand and promote Mastodon, the only large European social media platform (to my knowledge).
How can we make more Europeans come to the Fediverse?

@BrennpunktUA @hpod16 Even if Mastodon itself does not sell, track or monitor - anyone could (since it's all out in the open as you stated before. No need for an account even.)

And I beg to differ about the likeliness of a take over by "fascists"/malicious actors. Not as in server take over, but in "join and spam" or "join and deceive"-runs, the operation financed by e.g. big tech

I think that WILL happen when Mastodon reaches a critical mass, and the @Mastodon developers need to be prepared.

@kallekn
Well, here's a start: @HennaVirkkunen

This is the account of the Executive Vice President of the European Commission, on the official EC instance.

More to come? we'll see...

@hpod16

likely the same way as during the last 30 years: If enough "big players" move to a new social network, their peer groups will also move.

Main problem for marketing in the Fediverse:

no amplifying algorithms
no ads you can buy

And we like to talk and discuss a lot, and perhaps you can sell a thing you create, because people are interested, but "BUY MY SHINY PRODUCT" doesn't work well.

@hpod16
Welcome to the fediverse

@hpod16 @nihkeys Yeah it’s like a mix of a video game forum and early Twitter, great stuff. Following and blocking hashtags makes it easy to find new people to follow and keeps your blood pressure lower

@SteveThompson good morning and thanks for the music!

Refreshing that YouTube embeds over here... I remember when Facebook used to do this.

Here's my first Mastodon post!
My mission out here? To understand and promote Mastodon, the only large European social media platform (to my knowledge).
How can we make more Europeans come to the Fediverse?

@hpod16 Cat pictures, discussions about Linux and Star Trek memes are a good way to start.

@benjamincox are dog pictures okay too?

@echopapa
I only just realised I haven't seen a single ad on here yet! How refreshing.

I think Marketing is a problem. No big company behind Mastodon means no big marketing budget, means less people hear about the company.

I'm doing my bit, spreading by word of mouth.

Everytime I see someone complain that there is no European Social media in the comments sections of the EU accounts, I point them to the EC Mastodon. It's a start, but you need celebrities on board, really.

Here's my first Mastodon post!
My mission out here? To understand and promote Mastodon, the only large European social media platform (to my knowledge).
How can we make more Europeans come to the Fediverse?

@gagagoogle @Mastodon
But how? How can developers prepare for a fascist take-over?
Better mod services? Algorithms that don't polarise? What else?

@hpod16 Absolutely! The more, the better!

@hpod16 @Mastodon
It could be hindered if there was more possibilities for server-owners to identify bad actors on their servers.

Since moderation is not cheap. It could instead be done with help from the users, by adding a "report abuse"-button to each post. Any user could then flag any post.

The server-owner should be able to mark some users as "trustworthy" giving their abuse-reports some sort of priority and the opposite too, "untrustworthy" for users who abuse this reporting system.