Add Mastodon logo to your website as contact method!
E-Mails are getting blocked or have lack of management (some don't even check it at all !).
Add logo to menu / sidebar / floating social site list, whatever!..
If you believe in Mastodon - add it!
My Mastodon pictures and variations can be found here:
http://freeschool.0id.org/mastodon-pictures-logo-remixes/
@freeschool@qoto.org I believe in the #Fediverse, but not #Mastodon. But Fediverse doesn't "solve" any of the problems you seem to have with #email.
@tyil
EMAIL VS MASTODON
Here are some my own personal reasons on the contrary and my consideration / awareness of email problems...
*** With Mastodon... ***
- I can actually get a response more often!... like instantly... email seems to take longer - could be a habit thing where people have to 'login' to email more whereas social is 'always on'.
- I tried emailing people and for many reasons my email falls under such sub-scenarios:
- With email people have said to me "oh I thought your name / FreeSchool must be spam so that's why I didn't click on it".
- Mastodon SHOWS the message (no choice!) in native interfaces so people have to read what I said not just look at name and judge
(although some email clients yes load too but much more unlikely to be spam in Mastodon and spam can't be automated as highly as in email)
- PLUS links and people are added in Mastodon message to what I was referring or replying to DIRECTLY / NATIVELY - like the actual POST not just a CC or plain text that could be copy and pasted from anywhere but credible Mastodon links and people attached!
- Mastodon encourages all types of people and in terms of fun, psuedo-names or aliases (it's a lot more prevalent / standard / in the philosophy)
So as has the internet always been Email just doesn't have that.
Mastodon as a social thing shows lots more real people even called 2454534 or SadCatMan or WhateverName and allows people to even ignore the name (which I think is better in general or at least not as ultimatum to if you 'sound' right by your name).
- Email lacks credibility of a profile attached - so on top of the above (ignoring Mastodon and not seeing message or not managing message) people receiving CAN actually check me as a person out (what my profile says / messages sent etc, my website, projects...)... this can be more a self-security or insecurity thing but actually more real or educational. People in email might have to say err... "Hi yeah" or "what do you want"... "oh you want conversation... that's weird by email"... people see I am human and wish little offence to others and they can see what I'm about even if it is different (can't with email it's really cold and my more likely spam)
- More interest and clicking on Mastodon seems the default (the insecurity goes away when people actually find relativity as forward-thinking humans instead of defensive "do-or-die" reply or "should I reply to this" in emails which seem totally alien and from far out... again the profile make this forward-facing more-sharing aspect or stance is better for people not self-harming themself from insecurity or paranoia...
Literally one expert (Vinay Gupta) said I was someone from his past repeatedly [good grief man] and people have mentioned girlfriend names and I'm like explaining in so many ways... repeating no I'm not and saying all this freeschool stuff and still they don't get it (yes people and everyone is stupid and don't even want audio chat on my suggestion to help situation.. but also for slowly catching little shy monkeys (to just chat) I think little things help.
So a lot can be about psychology + less colourful tech - which is +/- reasoning 100% but VERY human and because a lot about emails is VERY human I do weight more-certain or easier to see thing a lot more on Mastodon).
- People / even my admins might miss something but it helps to have the thread in 1 page (emails is sometimes not so or just a bit better in Mastodon while still being super-low in footprint as emails are)
Social side of Mastodon helps grease and involve more things and while that might not seem directly email related, for communication it's actually doing a lot of good work for us almost on it's own (the developers have done the invested work that pays us all to use it)...
***MAIN BIG REASON FOR MASTODON***
- Almost above all is that I BYPASS GOOGLE... So because everyone uses google like a " back-end " root to other services (email is the start to all subscription, passwords etc) if Mastodon people turn off email notifications (which I assume somewhat a large % do else if it would be 100's of emails) then the comms ARE ONLY USING Mastodon space NOT google)
No communications / Near-0 go to google!
NON-GOOGLE (LESS-GOOGLE)...
THAT IS SUPER.
Imagine on top people signup to Mastodon with non-gmail email - then Gmail is well and truly locked out more often and less harvesting as default! (they are now collecting LITTLE EVERYTHING and all other accounts and extension so this minimises it)
We all win if we don't give email reports or every movement email copies sent to google. 3rd party, government agents eventually...
Le$$ harvesting / tracking / web beacons in mail / no HTML loading tricking in Mastodon etc.... BIG win or MANY things I'm looking for and for the way in change from many malpractices.
- Oh finally Mastodon can do much more in terms of playing media (exchanging between people privately and native play)
- and executing less bad stuff too as default. With emails much more risky.
- and politically is aligned a bit more (email providers are political and profit orientated / do the dirty work when it comes really down to whistle-blowing on free speech or whatever).
TL; DR - Email is self-espionage :)
More people bypassing or away from that the better all our other work. Leaking it is bad work every second it's leaking / being on bad space / commercial space / attached to political company or government empire.
@freeschool@qoto.org That's one hell of a long post, and there's a lot wrong with it. I'll try to answer all the things that are worth responding to, but the post is huge and the layout is incredibly bad. Bear with me.
email seems to take longer
That is seems that way to you doesn't make it so.oh I thought your name / FreeSchool must be spam so that's why I didn't click on it
That's going to happen with the Fediverse just as well, you don't have that yet because there's no dumb normies here... yet. If everyone was using Fedi rather than email, it would go exactly the same way.
Mastodon SHOWS the message (no choice!)
If you're talking specifically about Mastodon, this might be true, I use superiour software for my Fediverse needs. I do seem to recall you have the option to add a trigger warning to your Mastodon post, which will hide the content unless the user clicks on the warning. Correct me if I'm wrong on this, though.
I find it interesting that when an email client does it, you consider it showing too much. I'm getting the impression you're just really looking to hate on email for a reason I've not yet figured out.
links and people are added in Mastodon message
You can add those fine in email, it's all about how your client renders it. While I consider it a gross misuse of email, HTML email exists and lets you do all that.Mastodon encourages all types of people
The Fediverse as a whole could be argued to encourage all types of people, but Mastodon on its own most certainly doesn't. There's entire groups working hard to ensure dissenting voices are never getting close totheir Mastodon servers.
The only way Mastodon "encourages" more interaction is through the use of the timeline. But to me it's quite similar to being on mailing lists with people you share interests with.
Email lacks credibility of a profile attached
I can't say I agree here. If I see a mail come in from a famous name, say Richard Stallman, I will double-check the headers first, and if it's legit, I give it all the credibility it needs. It's not dissimilar from how you recognize certain handles on the Fediverse.
More interest and clicking on Mastodon seems the default
There does indeed seem to be more interest in Mastodon, but I don't think that's a flaw of email itself.People / even my admins might miss something but it helps to have the thread in 1 page
Very debatable, and I would disagree here. Especially compared to Mastodon's layout, I think mailing lists do a much better job of threading posts together to keep it more reasonable to read through.@tyil
I think what you say has weight, however most is a human thing (apart from last bit yes mailing lists do better)... so I'll say good reply and mix of behavioural or preference things...
Just trying to email someone for me is enough evidence for normies or experts (some excluded)
But with Mastodon for me answers are a lot more conversational, social, informative
Even if what I do is very niche or anti-establishment (the people work / adjusting mentality / increasing self-respect or whatever any government would never pay for as it's self-defeating and would involve removing themself)
Again email + Mastodon (Mastodon with Mail ability) would be my choice and would solve / merge many of our questions / differences.
Appreciate you read the reply.
