considerateDoes anyone know if infosec engagement is showing signs of decline at the bird site? It feels a little like, with the help of @jerry, infosec might be leading the charge over to mastodon. Or am I suffering from an availability bias?
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@c0nsid3rate @jerry dunno but I keep coming here coz it's a dead fish harvest over there.
@eljefedsecurit @jerry I guess that's what I mean. Life is draining out at the bird site, possibly.
Denny@c0nsid3rate I'm not an infosec person and I am seeing it quite a lot in the general feed here.
Norsecio@c0nsid3rate seems to be alive and well IMO though even the narrow scope of "infosec twitter" is kind of a lot of people.
SuperTran@c0nsid3rate @jerry As someone who works in infosec I was super happy to find all of this infosec talent just right out of the box. And a lot of queer infosec people too! SOOO much cool content here. Also, there is an instance for Queer tech people called tech.lgbt. Awesome place, and their servers have been handling the traffic growth much smoother than some of the larger instances.
James Guthrie π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ@c0nsid3rate @jerry it was never great on the birdsite IMO. It's great here because we have a whole tab just for us!
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β@c0nsid3rate @jerry Availability bias. You can only see the parts of the fediverse that infosec.exchange itself is engaging with ... keep watching your 'federated timeline' for the maximum chaos available to you π
Jerry π¦ππ¦@yojimbo @c0nsid3rate there are many, many communities in the fediverse, most larger than Infosec (for now)
@c0nsid3rate @jerry Also, many of us here haven't touched birdsite for years, so we have no idea what 'signs of decline' over there look like.
What we do know is we're seeing signs of growth over here, with thoughtful people to talk to, and that's very nice!
jespunya@c0nsid3rate @jerry based on my perception (I donβt have any numbers about that) the sign up trend is clear. But I donβt perceive less activity on on Twitter, so Iβm not sure if it could change smoothly or it was just a mirage effect.
@jespunya @c0nsid3rate not surprising. Twitter is massive and they algorithmically limited what you saw. The algorithms is no doubt adjusting to make sure the feed stays full
@jerry @c0nsid3rate despite itβs theoretically true, your argument could have some confirmation bias too. Do you perceived some quantifiable change on the birds side?
thompsonize@c0nsid3rate @jerry I feel infosec is professionally skeptical and cynical enough while also being techie enough to explore and use both services - it isnβt like threats over there are going to DEcrease and I, at least, need to keep an eye on it.
Emeralds@c0nsid3rate I definitely feel the same way. I also think a large part of it is that twitter influencers like @Sysengineer @SwiftOnSecurity and @hacks4pancakes are all making moves to the website as well and have posted publicly about it. More than any other community I feel like leaders in the InfoSec community are charging into mastodon.
@Emeralds @Sysengineer @SwiftOnSecurity @hacks4pancakes yup. And some are cross-posting too, which is totally cool. I'm just getting considerable enjoyment from watching this all unfold. Impossible to predict where we wind up when the dust clears, if it ever does.
nobletrout@c0nsid3rate @jerry my position is: I find you on mastodon I unsubscribe from you on tweetface
@nobletrout @jerry does that give content providers a motive to stay on Mastodon?
@c0nsid3rate @jerry Iβm not here for content providers, if the people I follow view themselves as that first one of us has made a mistake
@nobletrout @jerry sure, I think I can go with that. You're talking about actual human interactions, not one way broadcasts. I think that's what I like about #mastodon. Though some of the security content is what I need for my job. As in, like, such and such is being exploited in the wild. Patch now. I actually appreciate that kind of content.
@c0nsid3rate @jerry make a list in your mastodon client of specific people. At least toot has that not sure about the general web client