The uphill battles continue to get steeper. Is it really worth the work to fight against wrong first impressions due to bad actors, misinformation, Meta's true intentions, AND people accusing me of ridiculous things?😔
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BeAware :veriweed: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 05:39:42 JST BeAware :veriweed: -
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BeAware :veriweed: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 05:53:14 JST BeAware :veriweed: @CWSmith this latest frustration comes from a very different place.
You see, there's an account on Threads with the Fediverse username and icon.
However, they've been mostly inactive. 1 post in 6 months before I started blasting them last night for their misrepresenting of themselves. Then, there was a Pakistani user asking about why Fediverse wasn't available there and the Fediverse account responded with a link to an article about how Pakistan's internet infrastructure is bad. That obviously has nothing to do with his question because he's on the internet....
It's just frustrating to see a username like that misused so badly and meta doing nothing about it. They could just ban the use of that username! But here we are...and I'm getting no help on the issue.
If you search "Fediverse" on threads, I am a good 40% of the posts, explaining what it is and advocating, however, I now feel even more useless because that account will be a lot of people's first impressions and you can't change a first impression.😩
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C.W. Smith (cwsmith@social.mechanizedarmadillo.com)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 05:53:15 JST C.W. Smith Honestly, at this point until Meta actually makes it two way we can't really do much more.
We tried, and frankly due to the nature of the setup we can't even point to the good things because it's all coming soon TM.
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