Baromètre de l'emploi dans les métiers de la musique et du spectacle vivant :
https://cnm.fr/communiques/barometre-de-lemploi-dans-le-secteur-de-la-musique-et-du-spectacle-vivant/
Baromètre de l'emploi dans les métiers de la musique et du spectacle vivant :
https://cnm.fr/communiques/barometre-de-lemploi-dans-le-secteur-de-la-musique-et-du-spectacle-vivant/
Putting on my marketing cap again for a second. (I have no power, so if you hate what I'm saying take comfort in knowing Mastodon would never hire me lol)
The feeling this illustration gives you should be the feeling people get when they hear Mastodon. Community, public, commons, subversive, a dab of punk. It's what I felt coming here for the first (third) time. There's an appetite for this on the corporate web, I just know it.
Artist: Gareth McMurchy
Curator: Molly White
Market algorithms are the Human Resources of corporate social media. They want you to believe they're neutral, or even on your side. But in reality, algorithms serve the corporation in which they operate.
And that's why I think the first couple of migrations didn't work out. People weren't coming to Mastodon as much as they were fleeing Twitter. That's what made Bluesky so immediately sticky. It was just like Twitter. It met people's expectations.
The more people come to Mastodon (or the greater Fediverse, etc.) looking for something different, the better their initial experience will be. You'd be surprised how many barriers people will clear with the proper motivation, right?
It's funny, this account is like my second or third attempt at Mastodon. I realized that the first go-rounds I came here thinking this was just another microblogging platform. I enjoy participating in new things. But, my frame of reference was Twitter, so when Mastodon wasn't that, it didn't stick. It wasn't until I came back here looking for change that it clicked for me.
I came to Mastodon for something different. Looking back, perhaps I didn't know what I was looking for, exactly. But I knew it was not more of the same. So the initial barriers to entry (choosing an instance, people and content discovery) were not too high for me.
Aside: Just wanted to thank everyone for allowing me to share my thoughts in this thread. Everyone was supportive. Even when there were disagreements. That honestly surprised me. Lots of insight. I loved it.
I was nervous before writing this thread. This topic is so heated, so contentious, I thought I would be eaten alive. Lol. But I wasn't. This was nice. Thank you.