The collapse of Twitter for (basically) self-inflicted reasons makes a strong case for building online infrastructure structured as a non-profit or public utility.
People rely on these platforms for public information, use them for democratic debate and many invest their livelihoods in them.
These platforms are too important to public safety, peoples’ livelihoods and democracy to leave in the hands of eccentric billionaires or the whims of stock markets.
@PenguinJunk @llebrun i use the federated time line to find those people.
that is when you see everything out there, that your instance has not blocked.
it is quite a useful tool.
@PenguinJunk @llebrun if their are topics in which you are interested, i recommend looking up and following the #hashtags. this will help you find people who are talking about the things of interest to you.
as with twitter, it takes time to find people. we seem to forget how long it took to curate our timelines on #twitter.
most groups have a hashtag that they post with their messages. it helps people to find you as well.
i also do regular checks on twitter to see if those that i love have made an account. and i'm happy to say many have.
i also take time to look at the follow lists of people that i admire. this is another way that i have found people to follow.
Luke LeBrun
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