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   Tobi Okanlawon (sherlock_holmes@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 20:57:39 JST Tobi Okanlawon

   Okay, this is part of my contribution to the idea of a monoculture on mastodon.

   I'm Nigerian. Nigeria is about to go on a huge public strike, and I haven't heard anything about it here. Now, I don't blame anyone for that, obviously, but I think it shows the fact that perhaps there aren't as many Africans as I'd like.

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     BeAware (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 20:57:34 JST BeAware

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     @sherlock_holmes I just enjoy communicating on a mass scale. The fact that AP let's me do it from my own little corner of the web is really sweet.

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     Tobi Okanlawon (sherlock_holmes@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 20:57:37 JST Tobi Okanlawon

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     There will always be a specter looming over mastodon in the form of an unanswered question: What is social media for? Or put better, What do we want social media to be?

     If it's just a place to scream into the nether, then it really doesn't matter who's listening to you.

     If it's more than that, if it's a place for communities to collaborate and communicate; and I vibe with this more, then we will need to build it to be that sort of place.

     #mastodon

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     Tobi Okanlawon (sherlock_holmes@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 20:57:38 JST Tobi Okanlawon

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     I don't know what the cause of this is, and I'm intentionally avoiding blaming anyone (for those that think it's a white problem) or anything (for those that think it's because of a lack of certain features) yet.

     I really like the fediverse, even though mastodon is all I use. I like the spirit of the fedi, and I'll like to see it work.

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     Tobi Okanlawon (sherlock_holmes@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 20:57:38 JST Tobi Okanlawon

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     I hope that we'll be able to discuss and investigate this problem (if we can even term it as that) and I'll love to be part of the discussion and the solution if there ever is one.

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     Gerbrand van Dieyen (gerbrand@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jul-2024 01:38:05 JST Gerbrand van Dieyen

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     • BeAware

     @BeAware @sherlock_holmes If you'd compare social media to a public square, the commercial social media have elevated stages, where most popular attendants stand - controlled by the venue owners.
     Fediverse/mastodon is an even square. There is no way to stand out other than by organically getting more attention.

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     Gerbrand van Dieyen (gerbrand@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jul-2024 01:38:06 JST Gerbrand van Dieyen

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     @BeAware @sherlock_holmes the highly commercial social media the attention is distributed more skewed, popular accounts getting exponential more exposure.

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