Hmmm... I'm trying my darndest to get Twitter users to at least consider trying Mastodon. :") I know many mutuals who would be happy here rather than jumping onto another corporate/exploitative social media, but sometimes it feels like I'm talking to a brick wall. I speak from observing the cycle of corporate social media for 10+ years.
Bsky/Threads/Instagram/Etc are the "easier" options despite being detrimental to the future of networking. Sigh.
@Dreamstroph @Snewdraws It's a combination of that, and BS and Hive released a statement that swears up and down "yes we feed all of your content to this AI, but we're not generating anything with it, we're just using it to tag and automod everything you submit".
Sure. I'll buy that with Hive's track record behind that statement...
Then there's also folks forgetting that Bluesky takes a very minimalist approach to....violent/hateful political activities. They give you a slider to turn on/off as to whether or not you wanna see it. Nothing more. Either people are willing to accept blind eyes or have just forgotten that. This after a month of Rainbow Capitalists quickly folding and disappearing in response to threats from those people...? Nah. BS ain't it.
@Llieka I thought I would be happy with an art-focused website like dA/Inkblot/Etc, but the modern internet doesn't work well with artists using separate sites away from a general audience. I feel like this is the best option we got, as it still fosters a healthy art community while allowing non-artists from other communities to view and appreciate our work. Best of both worlds!
I really want more people to consider Mastodon a viable option, I find artists really enjoy it here once they try it.
@Snewdraws I feel yah. Iโm tired of watching my platforms burn to the ground due to corporate bullshit. Iโm really excited about Mastodon but it seems hard to get people to try it for some reason.
Just wait I guess?
@Snewdraws wish I had a platform to promote people to come here. I generally just ask artists or others if they have a mastadon as well (in a *hint hint* kind of way)
I believe the person that makes a bluesky/mastadon bridge app (where if you post you post to both at the same time) will do well, and will kind of allow artists and others to naturally pivot over to here.
@Snewdraws Right? I try laying out in as neutral, non-hostile/edgy language as I can why those other options are just gonna be more of the same problems we all complain about at one point or another. And they just seem to want to go back to "normalcy" of having those those general problems but not a site collapsing on itself under a single egotistical billionaire.
Even when I really illustrate how Mastodon isn't as fragmented or hard to use as people think it is, they shift to "well Mastodon is kinda sus, I hear lots of people with shitty politics fund it", y'know the crypto techbro or lib-right crowds. As if the entire thing is one singular entity, despite laying out the above, that it's NOT, we're varied, and able to block out the shitters and aren't owned by one all-powerful shitter.
It really is talking to a brick wall sometimes.
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