@andypiper quotes on journalists and media;

"You own your website, you own your email. Why not own your social media?"

"On mastodon there is no opaque algorithm deciding if your followers see your posts. We also don't incentivize doomscrolling"

"Mastodon has a nice feature to highlight content in your post using Markdown "

(check https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/07/highlighting-journalism-on-mastodon/ )

"We are going to have better referral tracking so you can see where viewers come from"

#MastodonInNL

@douwe I'm wondering which statistics @andypiper uses for the claim "There is very strong adoption of the fediverse in the Netherlands"? I suspect that Andy uses the number of Mastodon servers that are hosted in the Netherlands. That's relatively higher because of the good internet infrastructure.

I don't think that the fediverse isn't that much supported by Dutch people as Andy thinks. What I see over the years is that Dutch people are conservative considering their choice of social media. Many of them tried for example Mastodon, but most of them went back to the existing big-tech social media or are now on Bluesky (big-tech in sheep's clothing). Compared to e.g. Germans, the Dutch are relativity not very active on the fediverse. I really wish they were. Hopefully it will change again for the better.