About two weeks ago, we joined the masses of people leaving Twitter for Mastodon. The fact that Mastodon, building on some earlier ideas for federated social networking, is a decentralized approach, has renewed our interest in, and hope for, the decentralization of the Internet.
Hi. This is a great article. However, you may wish to consider using a bar graph instead of a pie chart, as pie charts have many problems in displaying quantitive information such as the list of percentages you present in the article. An excellent overview on this issue is here:
Thank you! I pasted the pie chart image directly from another source (i.e. I don't have the source data to hand) but will take note of this going forward.
Well, there's bufferbloat in the fediverse... and hysterically, the more you post and the more you are linked to, the more you DDOS yourself. JWZ called this the "mastodon stampede": https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1596576289984434176
Typo: It's Bryan (with a y) Cantrill.
Thank you! I hate it when people mis-spell my name.
Me too (McD not MacD...)
Hi. This is a great article. However, you may wish to consider using a bar graph instead of a pie chart, as pie charts have many problems in displaying quantitive information such as the list of percentages you present in the article. An excellent overview on this issue is here:
https://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/visual_business_intelligence/save_the_pies_for_dessert.pdf
Thank you! I pasted the pie chart image directly from another source (i.e. I don't have the source data to hand) but will take note of this going forward.
Great!
The chart is mine, I will adjust this in the future. Thanks for the tip :)
Well, there's bufferbloat in the fediverse... and hysterically, the more you post and the more you are linked to, the more you DDOS yourself. JWZ called this the "mastodon stampede": https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1596576289984434176