hey fediverse, I'm a journalism student in college and I'm interested in writing a story about Mastodon for a class -- any power users or instance admins out there that would want to talk about the platform and what makes it unique?
@Trespeak
I'd just like to interject for moment. What you're refering to as Mastodon, is in fact, OStatus/Mastodon, or as I've recently taken to calling it, OStatus plus Mastodon. Mastodon is not an social network unto itself, but rather another instance of a fully functioning OStatus microblogging platform made useful by open-source licensed, freely developed protocols, and vital system components comprising a full microblogging standard as defined by W3C.
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@Trespeak happy to answer questions. I understand pretty well how things fit together around here in the #fediverse
@Trespeak i'm guessing you got lots of responses, but if you need anyone i can help
@Trespeak I run a couple instances and would be willing to chat. DM me.
@Trespeak Why would you only talk to admins and “power users”?
I feel that the most unique thing about Mastodon is that we have diverse communities that manage to engage (for the most part) in respectful discourse. Focusing on the technologically-savvy misses a good part of that. :)
(And yes, I think that's an answer :P)
@kellerfuchs A fair and valid point! I think I was honestly just looking for people to talk to and wasn't sure how to phrase that. ☺️
@Trespeak I kinda guessed, but it still made for a good way to jump in. (Also, deconstructing tech-ethnocentric assumptions is good.)
EASIER TO GET A JOURNALISM JOB WITH A MARKETING DEGREE.
YOU'VE BEEN WARNED.
Heck, you don't even have to be a journalist to post native ads. You can just give the company access to a form for posting their own "content" :)
@Trespeak happy to answer questions
@Trespeak @NthTensor
This could be you...?
@Trespeak I have tried to help out new users a bit by explaining how the federation works. Love to help you too.
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You can ask anything of me.
@Trespeak I'd be happy to comment if you need more voices. I'm running a humble personal server as a pet project, but hoping to deploy it to a kubernetes swarm :)
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I run a single-user instance and am currently tracking the spread of Mastodon itself. Happy to contribute to your story!