There's a lot of focus on #journalist#Xitter to #Mastodon migration, but the overall story is quite a bit bigger I think.
The #Fediverse offers huge opportunity for independent journalism in a world where so much of #news media are consolidated and in the hands of shady mogul billionaires. In other words Fediverse is both a threat to existing business models, as well as market opportunity.
We can expect a whole different vector of corporate entries in the #news / #journalism field. One that gets less attention than, say, a Tumblr corporate entry. A market where the corporations operate more in the background, under the radar, as it should be the journalism parts that stand out.
@smallcircles
To be fair, we get a sense that many instances are operated by those who are invested in highly questionable endeavours, which make them function similarly to a large corporation.
One of the goals of Fediverse proponents like us is to make setting up secure instances fairly easy, and not too burdensome. We think #Mastodon isn't able to provide such, but with #BloatFE and no javascript, maybe it can.
There's a range of characteristics that would be great to know about an instance and its management that aren't currently known, or easily available.
There should be something like a manifesto and checklist that's discoverable to figure out good from bad players. Stuff that helps do due dilligence before choosing your instance.
We discussed removing the three trianlge version and just focus all the attention on the simpler design but we've been snowed under.
It will get done.
First step to having people accept a new thing is to have a palatable icon for it that doesn't instantly repulse. It boggles us when people don't realise how repulsing the pentogram actually is.
Great to know people are enjoying the development. We aren't 100% certain that the antenna fullyread as antenna of a butterfly quite yet, but we do embrace the idea of a "social butterfedy."
We just realised, that they could overlay any image over the above using a multiply blend in the layering. Possibly could be combined with a washed out colourise effect on any photo too, they might be able to offer customised banners to people still on legacy social sites. :P
This instance is in a wind down phase and it seems we only have 2 days of past info available. :(
Hi @BjornW see above, if still interested in the idea of banners, you could make bespoke banners as pictured. In GIMP we overlayed a jungle banner image with the above, duplicated as two layers, one layer is 'Multiply'-blended (90% opacity), the other is 'Screen'-blended (35% opacity).
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