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It's "email me at gmail.com". The article is about replacing a company's usage of Facebook and Twitter with Mastodon. They then link to their Mastodon instance,

It's "email me at gmail.com". The article is about replacing a company's usage of Facebook and Twitter with Mastodon. They then link to their Mastodon instance, as if that's where we can find all sorts of external communication, the kind they'd usually have on Facebook. Nope. As a nontechnical user, I am immediately confused and closed the page without learning anything. The idea that a company could "reach millions of users" with Mastodon is ridiculous.

riffic 4y ago
I can reach millions of users, billions potentially, with WordPress. My WordPress is also compatible with Mastodon since I installed the ActivityPub plugin. I understand the federated social web has a technobabble aspect to it. I am sorry you aren't with it but that's honestly not my problem.
- phailhaus 4y ago
  And that's exactly why Mastodon will never reach mass adoption. That's my only point: Mastodon is for techies. It is not and will never be a viable competitor to centralized social media. The idea that "companies should run their own Mastodon instances" as a way to replace Facebook is absurd.
  - riffic 4y ago
    not asking for that though. The only thing I'd like to see is for content management systems to adopt the protocol for federation since it's a W3C recommendation. smart media and institutional players will do this
    - phailhaus 4y ago
      You're on the wrong post then, because I've been responding to the article which is arguing that companies should switch to Mastodon over traditional social media. This isn't a thread about Mastodon in general.
      - riffic 4y ago
        it's a shorthand to say "Mastodon" since no one really knows about the stuff under the hood (ActivityPub and the federated social web) Yes everyone (especially those taking public money) should build AP into their existing web infra like their content management systems. it's a complete failure of policy that all of these public status communications are made into centralized services with hostile ownership. for this, I mean your local police department and fire department, library and mayor and all of those groups.

riffic 4y ago

I can reach millions of users, billions potentially, with WordPress. My WordPress is also compatible with Mastodon since I installed the ActivityPub plugin. I understand the federated social web has a technobabble aspect to it. I am sorry you aren't with it but that's honestly not my problem.

phailhaus 4y ago
And that's exactly why Mastodon will never reach mass adoption. That's my only point: Mastodon is for techies. It is not and will never be a viable competitor to centralized social media. The idea that "companies should run their own Mastodon instances" as a way to replace Facebook is absurd.
- riffic 4y ago
  not asking for that though. The only thing I'd like to see is for content management systems to adopt the protocol for federation since it's a W3C recommendation. smart media and institutional players will do this
  - phailhaus 4y ago
    You're on the wrong post then, because I've been responding to the article which is arguing that companies should switch to Mastodon over traditional social media. This isn't a thread about Mastodon in general.
    - riffic 4y ago
      it's a shorthand to say "Mastodon" since no one really knows about the stuff under the hood (ActivityPub and the federated social web) Yes everyone (especially those taking public money) should build AP into their existing web infra like their content management systems. it's a complete failure of policy that all of these public status communications are made into centralized services with hostile ownership. for this, I mean your local police department and fire department, library and mayor and all of those groups.