A great thread. Though why not use the web as your platform? Micro.blog can do the work to help you own your identity & data, and as @EthanZ suggests it will also allow you to crosspost to both Twitter & Mastodon to stay in touch with the people you chose.

Long thread – buckle up. TL:DR; yes, you should join Mastodon. But you should stay on Twitter as well. What we need are more and different online communities, not just an exodus from a troubled platform.

— Ethan “no blue check before it was cool” Zuckerman (@EthanZ) November 4, 2022

#elon-musk #mastodon #micro-blog #own-your-data #ownyourdomain #social-media #twitter

https://boffosocko.com/2022/11/04/55811149/

https://boffosocko.com/2020/08/29/privilege-and-websites-felix-rambles/

Come hear more about the wisdom that @MrChuckD is dropping. Join us for IndieWebCamp in two weeks.

#OneHackAway #OwnYourDomain

Listen everyone I been WWW since 1999. I been saying establish your .com .whatever and build store your content offline. Oblivious folk ask how come I do 1 SOC med primary & the rest follow… duh socMed is like hair extensions NOT the hair. Everything is #OneHackAway from GHOST pic.twitter.com/I741jBwPgT

— Chuck D (@MrChuckD) June 16, 2020

https://boffosocko.com/2020/06/16/55772361/

I’ve been to a number of WordCamps over the past year, and invariably, in the registration process I’m asked for my Twitter handle and the majority of the time that Twitter handle is printed on my name tag.

Why are we doing this?! It’s not TwitterCamp. It’s a W-O-R-D-C-A-M-P!! Why can’t we ask for and put our own domain names (running WordPress, natch…) in our registration and on our name tags?! Let’s get with the program people… Twitter is nice, but obviously WordPress on a domain name we own and control is far better.

This is the sort of name tag I’d much rather support!

https://boffosocko.com/2019/05/06/name-tags-at-wordcamps/

Some important things about control of one’s own website here. She doesn’t say it, but having one as a platform is a means of self-distributing one’s own work. It shouldn’t also necessarily mean distributing someone else’s and amplifying their voice too. https://boffosocko.com/2017/06/29/%f0%9f%91%93-http-audreywatters-com-2017-06-24-annotations-again/

This is some awesome news, particularly for all the people fleeing Medium. Now they can own their own data on their own domain a whole lot easier. I wouldn’t be surprised to see more of the #DoOO crowd joining Micro.blog as an option too. https://boffosocko.com/2019/03/11/medium-import-for-micro-blog-manton-reece/

#OwnYourDomain #OwnYourHosting #OwnYourWork