Posting on mastodon is called microblogging for a reason - cause its a public blog. One can host a single-person instance and quite literally have a mastodon ba

Posting on mastodon is called microblogging for a reason - cause its a public blog. One can host a single-person instance and quite literally have a mastodon based blog site. Some people seem to confuse it with private messaging. User confusion about what an application or service does or does not is not a good basis on which to base a technical design, though it obviously hints that the particular app was not exactly "self-documenting". One can only speculate about how the confusion came about, but privacy advocates posting... publicly on mastodon may have unwillingly contributed to a sense that this space is "different" and "better" in every possible way. Yes, the fediverse/mastodon is different and better but in specific ways: it doesnt use algorithmic timelines, it doesn't push ads, it doesnt use dark addiction patterns etc. (though all of those might be reversed for particular instances or new server types). Unbundling the different issues and educating the broad base of users about what is going on is not just healthy and honest towards users, it may also contribute to having more well defined and stable user requirements about different types of online platforms.