Erin KissaneApr 6, 2023
It’s great to see mastodon showing up meaningfully for things like the Texas Observer, but it seems—from my subjective POV—super uneven. Making a really strong case for the best parts of, for example, bookworld/literary twitter to put down stronger roots here is going to take active support and community-building, especially when most journalists are still not active here (and are frequently reviled for being journalists at all).
Show threadErin KissaneApr 6, 2023

Right now, a lot of fedi advocates are asking authors and artists to leave the social media sites that have allowed them to get by, but without doing much/anything to support those newcomers once they arrive here—even leaving aside the old-guard pushback against “self promotion.”

And idk, “staying on twitter for your work makes you the object of my disgust,” is maybe not the persuasive tool a lot of people here seem to believe it is. 🤷🏻

Show threadErin KissaneApr 6, 2023
Please definitely post here with your favorite counterexamples and thriving zones, I want to be wrong in my cranky feelings!
Show threadAbandoned AmericaApr 8, 2023
@kissane can't tell is this is sarcasm or not, if not I'd be happy to but if it is I'm sorry the experience hasn't been as rewarding here as Twitter. It frustrates me from time to time too, mostly for the lack of search but I digress
Show threadCoolBlenderKitten
@AbandonedAmerica @kissane
I understand about the lack of search but I always understood there to be good reasons for that. The way around it are hashtags that artist and journalists could use a lot, which would help with that. Yes, it's not ideal but it's also a safety guard against exploitation of all content here by the big coorporations.
I don't want this to be another Twitter. The hellsite can go and burn, as far as I am concerned.
Apr 8, 2023 at 7:30amWeb
Show threadAbandoned AmericaApr 8, 2023
@CoolBlenderKitten @kissane it's a little ridiculous to expect that just because one group of people don't want a feature that could easily be opt in/opt out, nobody should have it. And the problems with Twitter were way beyond the fact that it has a search function. Hashtags are ineffective.
Show threadErin KissaneApr 8, 2023

@AbandonedAmerica @CoolBlenderKitten Honestly, I give it 6-12 months before search is running here, one way or another, ideally with a strong opt-out.

(AFAIK, lots of people prefer opt-in and apparently some believe even that is unacceptable because the presence of search in the fediverse will change things—and they believe, I guess, that nothing should change without unanimous consent. I don’t think that’s likely to prevent implementation.)

Show threadAbandoned AmericaApr 8, 2023
@kissane @CoolBlenderKitten I hope it isn't. One of the worst things about Old Mastodon is this prevailing belief that just because you personally don't want a feature that could be opt in/out nobody else should have it either. THAT I really do resent and it is a huge hindrance to platform growth. That's where all the Content Police are coming from too. "I don't like threads so nobody should do them, I don't like X types of posts so they're not welcome here," etc. STFU & manage your prefs then 🙄