Adam S. SmithI remember many months ago @mike you were wondering if it's possible to set up an auto-reply to mentions on Twitter/X to direct people to your Mastodon profile. Did you find a way?
Mike Taylor 🦕@AdamStuartSmith I did; but of course it stopped working when the Twitter API was shut down. I do miss some people who are not here (@TetZoo for one) but not as many as I expected.
@mike @TetZoo Ah, thanks. Same
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My feeling, when I drop by to see if I've had any notifications is that activity is heavily skewed (much more so than before) to organisations and accounts with large follower bases.
e.g. the first ten posts in my feed (excluding ads) are:
Best for Britain
Griffin Lab
BBC Radio Nottingham
BBC East Midlands
Steve Battlemuch (local politician)
British Geological Survey
personal account
personal account
Tom Holland (author/podcaster)
British Trust for Ornithology
@AdamStuartSmith @TetZoo Yes, I very much have the sense that among the other dreadful mistakes it's making, Twitter is trying to shift into being a broadcast medium. Which of course is *exactly* what it wasn't when it attracted all those users who wanted to interact.
@mike @TetZoo Yes, everyone's set to transmit but not necessarily to receive. There are barriers to transmission there anyway, which is why reach is so poor.
It's understandable why people have stayed. Accounts with large followings have more to lose on the face of it, while organisations are subject to a kind of inertia so they can't just jump ship on a whim, and those running the social media accounts probably don't have a say anyway.