Re: Will Mastodon, the platform that keeps the #Fediverse alive, miss a strategic opportunity to bring official institutions on board at scale?
@everton137@social.vivaldi.net is this a marketing problem? Or a problem of opportunity?
BlueSky has millions of VC investment dollars and with it come the connections, for good or for evil.
I think that kind of connection is intangible, and can't really be bought with marketing spend (at least not on the scale Mastodon can afford.)
That's not to say marketing spend would be unappreciated, but it won't buy your way into the inner circles of government.
@julian
I think it’s both, but not in the way that people usually frame it.
Mastodon now has a new CEO and resources. They're not VC-scale or profit-driven, but they still have real capacity.
Meanwhile, someone from EuroSky is in Brussels every week. The difference in behavior is clear: they are actively selling their project.
This looked like an important event, yet Mastodon didn't post anything. No note, no visibility. Honestly, that feels like a serious strategic oversight.
What makes this more frustrating is that there are plenty of passionate people in the Fediverse who would help - some already do as volunteers. However, it increasingly feels like Mastodon’s leadership lacks a business- and strategy-oriented perspective beyond building good software.
At this stage, software quality alone isn’t enough.
@mellifluousbox , I hope you take my criticism in a positive way.
