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@ruario @tallship @Vivaldi I think it's great that you decided to self-host, we should all dogfood our #FOSS when we can, and I think it's great that you chose to select a Mastodon server as the type of Fediverse platform that works for you 🙂

Lately, however, the media coverage, especially the #Time_Magazine interview last month where the word #Fediverse wasn't mentioned a single time, and the mastodon brand was made to sound as if it was the entire network itself?

While I can certainly appreciate that the #BDFL of that product wants to dominate with his brand, that's just ego i suppose, but one of the most significant contributions you can make with the sidebar, IMO, is to place the Fediverse or #ActivityPub logo there.

Seriously. And you can download one from Wikipedia under CC-BY.

I love #Vivaldi, and put up with a lot of jankiness while you were going through growing pains because i knew it would grow into the stellar platform it is today. I constantly update git repos, adding #Vivaldi as an, "also tested to work with" browser in several softwsre projects, because I believe it's important to recognize and acknowledge great symbols of freedom - like #FOSS, like Vivaldi, and like the well deserved recognition that the Fediverse has earned when someone clicks on that button in Vivaldi's sidebar 👍

It's becoming rather alarming, considering that, as FOSS and Privacy Advocates we're facing a difficult endeavor educating folks that Mastodon is NOT the Fediverse - because new adoptees are confused on this critical distinction.

Mastodon can't do #Faceplant, it can't do #InstaSPAM, it can't do #Reddit and it can't do #YouTube functions either... And it is notably lacking in much of what #Twitter does, although it has other merits.

But #Friendica, #Pixelfed, #Lemmy, and #PeerTube do actually directly address those particular niche roles as the Fediverse analogs for those deprecated, legacy silo platforms, respectively.

It would be wonderful if that informative task wasn't made more complicated by what many will consider as careless (and confusing) branding of a feature in what is arguably the best chromium based browser in the contemporary market.

BTW. I typed out this reply in Vivaldi on my #Android 😎

I hope that helps, and kindest regards,

#tallship

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