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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 #Pixelfed and did a fairly good job explaining how #ActivityPub works. But they spelled #Mastodon « 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
astroPug

@_elena

I’ve noticed that this “mastADon” misspelling is a thing. Seen it a few times on Reddit. I wonder if the drunken goblins that run autocorrect on our devices have now learned it that way for some of those users after repeated typos.

My drunken goblin has some favorite “corrections” for sure

@astroPug I know right? the misspelling is SO COMMON, I see it ALL the time.

Italian is my first language and when I write in English I invariably spell-check - especially if I'm writing an article for my blog. Imagine not spell-checking something that gets published on an actual news media site?

Seeing "Mastadon" in the press makes me a little angry every time it happens.

@astroPug @_elena Even as a grammar prescriptivist, I used to misspell that! The difference is that I am totally blind and use a screen reader (I only know the letters of words if I go over them one at a time), and I'm not writing professionally. But even if I were just writing to my readers on Dreamwidth or here on Friendica, if it were an essay or I wanted to promote something, I would certainly ensure that I knew how to spell it!

@dandylover1 @_elena @astroPug moreover, I know for a fact that eloquence consistently mispronounces mastodon as mastadon, and I think it's not the only one, that's why blog posts on the sites of several blindness organizations had it misspelled for a while. Braille displays help here a lot, but the issue is that afew companies have a monopoly on braille technology, which in turn makes a lot of even medium quality equipment prohibitively expensive unless you're in highly developed countries, such as the US