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When I opened up Lemmy this morning I could not believe my eyes. The top story was a headline from Forbes stating:
« ‘Open Source And Ethical’ TikTok, WhatsApp And Instagram Alternatives Could Transform Social Media ».

The article mostly focused on #Pixelfed and did a fairly good job explaining how #ActivityPub works. But they spelled #Mastodon « Mastadon » over and over again with no links to it. Yikes.

B for the effort, but please editors do better!

forbes.com/sites/esatdedezade/…

in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

Please join me in a round of applause for @elduvelle who, after reading my toot, reached out to the Forbes journalist, pointing out the "Mastadon" typo.

The typo has been fixed and the article is even linking to joinmastodon.org now 🥳

in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

It just occurred to me that the Forbes article uses a stock photo of a hand holding up a smartphone with a bunch of apps from mainstream, for-profit social media... even if the piece is about the #Fediverse.

So on my to do list for today: recreating a similar photo showing Fediverse software instead. Like, how my actual phone looks like.

As a photographer, I feel it's my duty to do this.

I will give the pic a CC BY-ND license. Thoughts?

And fellow photographers will you join in?

in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

My best shot at a stock photo for the #Fediverse, showing its most popular projects.

Please show some mercy, I am not a hand model (obvi) and my masking skills are a little rusty.

If some photographers would like to improve it, I could share my original photo and screenshot.

Hilariously, when I opened the tripod my bracelet got stuck in it and I semi-panicked for a few moments because I was home alone... with a tripod stuck to my wrist. Thankfully I managed to free myself 😂

#FediLove

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in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

@Elena Rossini ⁂

Nice! I know you have to make decisions about which to display, but it would be great to include Friendica, as many folks are searching for a Facebook alternative. Having Pixelfed, Mastodon, and Friendica represented handily displays alternatives to major Meta products.

in reply to wendinoakland :bc:

@wendinoakland yes I thought about it but I preferred to keep it simple and only show official apps or shortcuts to websites (like Lemmy) because mainstream media is totally clueless about the Fediverse and I didn't want to add extra complexity. The whole KISS / Keep it simple, Stupid principle that is.

I may do a v2 with Friendica, too, following many requests

@ivory @MonaApp @IceCubesApp

in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

I usually use a copyleft license like CC BY-SA because I think it's better to let people to create derivative with same license than not permit them.

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