BREAKING - Twitter has been sold to Elon Musk and will go private after agreeing to a deal worth $44 billion. pic.twitter.com/vEkGwXTDmt— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) April 25, 2022
Influential people need to get off their ass and move, because that's all anyone else sticks around for. We should bully them (but not in a way which makes us seem unhinged). There are dozens of reasons why left twitter should have left twitter by now but now that we can add the apartheid emerald mine racism factory failson to the list we can really rub some noses in the shit.
A few platforms already demonstrated that you can't just get influencers to move platforms and expect their audiences to follow. Facebook failed at streaming despite paying hundreds of streamers to use it exclusively and there have been others. I imagine the same issue will occur with twitter.
Things have to start at the grassroots early-adopter level, and then there is a weird chasm between the enthusiasts and the middle people called " the chasm " in marketing. It is the point of make-or-break for most projects, either you find a way to cross it or you don't and eventually fall to obscurity when you excited enthusiasts and early-adopters move onto something else promising.
This is definitely true, but I think things work a bit differently in political / activism circles compared to general media and entertainment. Entertainers are drawn to the biggest platforms like moths to a flame, and their followers tend to be hogs who don't care whether their slop is coming from Mr. Beast or The King of Random. Even for entertainers with cult followings like PewDiePie, their cult accounts for a minuscule fraction of their total audience.
On the other hand, in left politics, thought leaders and genuine evangelists are quite scarce, and are generally confined to the fringes to begin with. YouTube is never going to promote Breht Oshea as replacement for Vaush, for instance. These people have relatively small audiences, but they are very loyal, ideologically committed, and (I'm willing to bet) much more willing to make the jump along with them.
It doesn't have to be an exclusive thing either (unless they get banned). Realistically, anybody in left media should be syndicating their posts across Twitter and Mastodon.
i dont know how to use it either, but i also dont use twitter because i hate the format (well, i use it insofar as i get links from here and other places and look at tweets, but i dont have an account)
Oh okay. Short answer is a mastodon instance a single server within the Fediverse. There’s two ways to think about it: structurally and socially.
Structurally, it’s like email. If you get your email through Google, you can message anyone on any email server, but google is the one who actually gathers up that content and presents it to you. Gmail is your “local instance”.
Socially, your local instance is like the people in your apartment building. You throw a block party and these are the people who will come and shoot the shit. You can access the full Fediverse from any instance, but it’s nice if the wider Fediverse gets chaotic to switch over to sorting by local-only and seeing what your local instance peeps are up to. You can get to know them
Yeah you can choose your frontend but the big ones aren’t different enough to obsess over unless you’re into that. Finding an instance you like affects the experience way more
mastodon?
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eh, twitter's reach isn't particularly good - it just has all the journalists and shit so it has more influence than it ought to.
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Influential people need to get off their ass and move, because that's all anyone else sticks around for. We should bully them (but not in a way which makes us seem unhinged). There are dozens of reasons why left twitter should have left twitter by now but now that we can add the apartheid emerald mine racism factory failson to the list we can really rub some noses in the shit.
nice :kelly:
A few platforms already demonstrated that you can't just get influencers to move platforms and expect their audiences to follow. Facebook failed at streaming despite paying hundreds of streamers to use it exclusively and there have been others. I imagine the same issue will occur with twitter.
Things have to start at the grassroots early-adopter level, and then there is a weird chasm between the enthusiasts and the middle people called " the chasm " in marketing. It is the point of make-or-break for most projects, either you find a way to cross it or you don't and eventually fall to obscurity when you excited enthusiasts and early-adopters move onto something else promising.
This is definitely true, but I think things work a bit differently in political / activism circles compared to general media and entertainment. Entertainers are drawn to the biggest platforms like moths to a flame, and their followers tend to be hogs who don't care whether their slop is coming from Mr. Beast or The King of Random. Even for entertainers with cult followings like PewDiePie, their cult accounts for a minuscule fraction of their total audience.
On the other hand, in left politics, thought leaders and genuine evangelists are quite scarce, and are generally confined to the fringes to begin with. YouTube is never going to promote Breht Oshea as replacement for Vaush, for instance. These people have relatively small audiences, but they are very loyal, ideologically committed, and (I'm willing to bet) much more willing to make the jump along with them.
It doesn't have to be an exclusive thing either (unless they get banned). Realistically, anybody in left media should be syndicating their posts across Twitter and Mastodon.
I have no idea how to use mastodon. It's completely impenetrable to me, and I've tried learning it like five times now.
i dont know how to use it either, but i also dont use twitter because i hate the format (well, i use it insofar as i get links from here and other places and look at tweets, but i dont have an account)
There’s not much to know. It all comes down to finding a home instance that you vibe with
See, right there, I don't get what an "instance" is.
Oh okay. Short answer is a mastodon instance a single server within the Fediverse. There’s two ways to think about it: structurally and socially.
Structurally, it’s like email. If you get your email through Google, you can message anyone on any email server, but google is the one who actually gathers up that content and presents it to you. Gmail is your “local instance”.
Socially, your local instance is like the people in your apartment building. You throw a block party and these are the people who will come and shoot the shit. You can access the full Fediverse from any instance, but it’s nice if the wider Fediverse gets chaotic to switch over to sorting by local-only and seeing what your local instance peeps are up to. You can get to know them
Okay I guess I get the concept. But it also kind of seemed like fifty different twitter clones when I tried using it before.
Yeah you can choose your frontend but the big ones aren’t different enough to obsess over unless you’re into that. Finding an instance you like affects the experience way more