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When I opened up Lemmy this morning I could not believe my eyes. The top story was a headline from Forbes stating:
« ‘Open Source And Ethical’ TikTok, WhatsApp And Instagram Alternatives Could Transform Social Media ».

The article mostly focused on and did a fairly good job explaining how works. But they spelled « Mastadon » over and over again with no links to it. Yikes.

B for the effort, but please editors do better!

forbes.com/sites/esatdedezade/

Forbes · ‘Open Source And Ethical’ TikTok, WhatsApp And Instagram Alternatives Could Transform Social MediaBy Esat Dedezade

Please join me in a round of applause for @elduvelle who, after reading my toot, reached out to the Forbes journalist, pointing out the "Mastadon" typo.

The typo has been fixed and the article is even linking to joinmastodon.org now 🥳

joinmastodon.orgMastodon - Decentralized social mediaLearn more about Mastodon, the radically different, free and open-source decentralized social media platform.

It just occurred to me that the Forbes article uses a stock photo of a hand holding up a smartphone with a bunch of apps from mainstream, for-profit social media... even if the piece is about the .

So on my to do list for today: recreating a similar photo showing Fediverse software instead. Like, how my actual phone looks like.

As a photographer, I feel it's my duty to do this.

I will give the pic a CC BY-ND license. Thoughts?

And fellow photographers will you join in?

@_elena That sounds like a great idea!

Consider making one with the official apps only, and one with a bunch of third-party alternative apps as well as (or instead of) the official ones. Showcase how Fedi encourages software diversity.

@mkj great point! My iPhone has Impressia, Ivory, Mastodon, Mona, Pixelfed, Surf, Voyager (for Lemmy) and Wordpress (for my federated Wordpress blogs).

I was thinking of removing Impressia (for simplicity) and Wordpress (confusing). Not sure what should be on it, just Mastodon and Pixelfed seems too few.

Maybe: Mastodon, Pixelfed, Loops and PeerTube? Is there something else for Lemmy? I could create a shortcut on my phone for lemmy.world

@_elena For Lemmy you can take a look here: join-lemmy.org/apps

For the rest, who knows if there are web apps in ios like for Android. Friendica for example on Android allows you to install the web app. On ios I don't know

@mkj

join-lemmy.orgLemmy - Apps and LibrariesLemmy

@mkj @informapirata I have this so far.

Now taking a photo of my hand holding the phone while home alone is proving tricky. I will see if I can slap this onto a ready-made phone mockup

@_elena Great start!

And surely you must have a tripod (or even just a monopod) somewhere in the attic? 😉

@informapirata

Elena Rossini ⁂

@mkj thanks! yes of course I have tripods (3 even!) but I need to switch cameras and use one with a remote.

Also: light/glare is a bit of an issue, an already made mockup would work so much better. Like this: elements.envato.com/a-hand-hol

@_elena A stock image as a backdrop does have an additional advantage in adding a little privacy.

@_elena Semi-related; I sometimes find myself looking for stock photography. Would you say that particular site has decent terms for both buyers and sellers, or is it just one you found at the other end of a web search to show an example of the type of image you had in mind? If the latter, do you have any go-to sites for stock photos that you can recommend?