Ahtziri Gonzalez

I am starting to freak up about #TwitterDown #RIPTwitter

Africa policy bubbles are not moving to #Mastodon (and I am yet to find any Africa-based servers). I don't want to use Meta products. LinkedIn is just boring.

Looking for ideas on how post-Twitter global communication can look like (beyond EU/US).

Nov 18, 2022 at 5:41pmWeb
Show threadAlexander Drechsel 🚲Nov 18, 2022
@ahtzirigonzalez That sounds super-tricky! The good thing about Mastodon is that you don't need an account to follow people/accounts or topics/hashtags. Using the built in RSS feeds, one can build a website dashboard for the community. Or even pipe posts onto other platforms automatically. What local platforms are your peers using?
Show threadAhtziri GonzalezNov 22, 2022
@adrechsel WhatsApp is huge actually, many businesses and media have subscription systems to receive WA updates.
Show threadMaria AbreuNov 18, 2022
@ahtzirigonzalez I’m having the same problem with Latin American Twitter.
Show threadAndrew KornblattNov 18, 2022

@ahtzirigonzalez

Yeah, that is something a LOT of communities are experiencing esp. in the policy, peace-keeper, water-keeper, conservation groups with boots on the ground. If they are already a close-nit community, something like a whatsap can help but will not take the place of Twitter. My hope is that Mastodon will eventually get there, but the interum will need some massaging.

Show threadPatrick O'BeirneNov 18, 2022
@ahtzirigonzalez #linkedin may be boring but at least it's up and running so you can post.
And of course the many web based forums and mail lists that don't throttle discourse at 280 or 500 characters.
Show threadAhtziri GonzalezNov 22, 2022
@PatrickOBeirne a boost for the old newsletter?
Show threadPatrick O'BeirneNov 23, 2022
@ahtzirigonzalez It's been a long time since I used them (in a previous academic life) so I'm out of date. I googled "Africa Policy" plus keywords like "listserv" , "mail list", "discussion forum", etc and got a mixture of old (2004!) results and recentish (2016). It's best to see what the people whom you want to keep up with are using.
Show threadbrentitudeNov 19, 2022
@ahtzirigonzalez I saw a post on Twitter about a new platform called Post (I think). I’ll see if I can find it again.
Show threadbrentitudeNov 23, 2022

@ahtzirigonzalez here’s a link to get on the waiting list: https://post.news/?r=abnUl

Feel free to share it.

Home / Post.

Show threadAhtziri GonzalezNov 23, 2022
@brentitude thanks, I'll try it out.