Eugen RochkoMy dream for Mastodon is for it to be a viable choice as a publishing platform for any creator. In other words, for people to not feel like they're locked in to Twitter or Instagram if they want to be professionally successful.
Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️⚧️♾️🇺🇦@Gargron I use Twitter to follow scientists, journalists, and activists for their (informed) views. Right now, of all the people I follow on Twitter, only one scientist I follow posts here regularly. I don’t have any ideas on how to encourage people to also post here.
Pootz@dgoldsmith
I imagine someone from the community you'd like to see (or yourself even) will have to organize a mastodon instance specifically for that aim and then do the work of community building to get them on there.
I've been doing the same for my friends. The main thing is I don't think getting people to join individually will be as effective as trying to get whole communities to join at once. Otherwise the connections aren't there.
@Gargron
@pootz @Gargron I think it’s more convincing them that the extra time spent posting to Mastodon is worthwhile. There’s no way they’re going to stop posting to Twitter given the current state of affairs, so it represents more work for them. The one scientist I follow here also posts on Twitter.
I don’t think people will abandon Twitter until Mastodon reaches a tipping point for network effects. If someone with a large following on Twitter ditched it and came here, that would jump start it.
@pootz @Gargron More (not all) of the people I follow do have accounts here, but after a few initial toots they stopped tooting.
I don’t think anyone who uses social media for their job (outreach, education) is going to abandon Twitter any time soon. So maybe we need to make it as painless as possible to post in both places?
TL;DR: it’s not community, it’s the size of the audience.