Post #1759967
2026-04-29 00:35 UTC
@CaptMorgan@freeradical.zone But something that was pretty clear to me in talks/panels I attended is that the people who are completely out of our reach at the moment, and who will glaze over in 0.379 seconds if you start trying to explain to them how to "get on Mastodon", are possibly people who might have an outsized leverage to tip "sovereign social" into legitimacy.
Those are the grandparents we don't want to bother onboarding. The kids we're trying to ban.
and OUR SOCIAL AND POLITICAL AND ACADEMIC LEADERS
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@johannab@cosocial.ca 2026-04-29 00:40
@CaptMorgan What if, instead of spending all day at a digital governance forum trying to tactically schmooze 2-3 people into connecting on LI so maybe there will be some mutual follow-up through which I can try to make a later appointment with them and maaaayyybe have enough legitimacy as a Graduate Student to pitch a little social engagement experiment but not say anything scary like "tech" ... What if I had a QR code they could scan, click "sign in with iCloud" and follow my public feed?