Sad to see people fleeing the sinking ship of XTwitter and just not even considering this as an option. It just has to be some other centralized, corporate-controlled place run by the same three shitty techbros who have decades of experience ruining the Internet for all of us.
I feel glad for the many friends I do have here, but it's one of those moments where it feels like being principled really does leave you lonelier than you deserve to be.
@silvereagle Yuuuuuuuuuuuuup, it is like watching people who just got done burning their hand on the stove eyeballing a cooking range like it's going to be a way better time, even when both options have already had PLENTY of red flags
And it's always "oh but Mastodon is so HARD to use, I mean I think I heard someone say that and I definitely haven't spent more than 5 minutes trying to use it but like, yeah, not worth the effort"
@silvereagle I'll admit I haven't fully given up Twitter yet, because I follow a lot of artists there. I'm just here and there at the same time.
The longer post lengths and the different clientele of this particular Mastodon instance means I can type out messages like this and I have greater confidence they'll be read and appreciated. In other words, this space feels better set up for civil discourse. I've tried doing similar on Twitter but it's more difficult.
@Intaglio_Dragon @silvereagle I’ve noticed a few artists I followed really tied their horse to the ship and refuse to leave it. For a few of them I do feel bad for because they did spend a lot of time building their profiles up. I just hope more of them come to their senses and make profiles elsewhere while they can still get the word out to maintain some of their following.
The ones who refuse to leave will need to come to terms with it sooner rather than later.
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Reminder that we all have the power to be involved here: when you see people talking about leaving #Twitter, remind them that Mastodon exists, suggest a couple servers, offer to help them out with it. Our biggest strength here is that we are a community that has a direct incentive to make a real and tangible investment in bringing users over, and therefore, that we have a reason to become directly involved in getting people to get over here.
I got like five people onboarded in the 48 hours. If everyone in the community could get at least one person a week on average to join, we would be doubling in size every week.
The problem: everyone knows some Fediverse app is probably better. Especially if you set up your own domain ahead of time and get used to properly posting/curating all your stuff there, but it's a pain in the ass to set up full of bruising learning the whole way.
My contribution to the problem: I do not want to talk someone through all the steps needed and concepts involved in even a simple mastodon instance and then deal with them whining about how the other stuff was "easier" because I can only say "Of course it was, they aren't going to get you to sit there and blather about what you might wanna buy so they can rush that info off to other companies if they don't make it comfy/smooth ahead of time" so many times...
@silvereagle also, there is a RIDICULOUS amount of baggage around fediverse programs as the place where a bunch of The Worst People (who couldn't stay on corporate social media because they were so atrocious) had to go... And also the place where Old School Forum Drama causes all sorts of "Wait, I can't see my friends' toots anymore because these two admins are having a pissing contest!?"
Mastodon literally is the jewel of a crucible heated by extremists too spicy for Twitter and shitty admins who had the same "I can run this and become popular like I wasn't in high school" attitude that wrecked a LOT of forums and made big corporate "No, the people moderating this know that it's a job" social media seem appealing back in the aughts.
I am having a net good experience here but I'm not gonna pretend that there wasn't some fuckshit that happened right out in public for everyone to see that scared a bunch of folks away...
#TwitterMigration folks often just want #Twitter without the baggage. Which is why how one sees #BlueSky and similar services vis-à-vis #Mastodon depends in large part on what one thinks Twitter's baggage actually was.
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