Working on a medium post called "It's Time: Why and How to Quit Twitter and Join Mastodon"
If there are any particularly strong sentiments you have that you think should be included in this piece, gimme a shout. Bulk of writing tonight, publish tomorrow.
@mykola I would encourage the quickest of readthroughs of earlier Medium posts about Mastodon. not only because I wrote one of them, but also because links are nice. shoulders of giants etc.
here's 13 others from the early days, collected:
https://medium.com/a-change-is-coming/mastodon-14-perspectives-on-a-breakthrough-month-521ce46baa71
here is a helpful intro to the whole mastodon situation:
https://medium.com/@GinnyMcQueen/toot-how-to-intro-to-mastodon-e5655bfa87d2
the mastodon tag does include references to the band, but here goes:
https://medium.com/tag/mastodon/latest
happy writing :3
@mykola Why to quit Twitter: Nazis, white supremacists, organized harassment, racism, misogyny, toxic political propaganda, etc ad nauseum.
Why to join Mastodon: We ain't got none of that bullshit. Also, they're called "toots" 👌
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that the argument of reach is false.
One can have a very high reach on proprietary networks, that's true. But it can be any moment taken, by just you sharing a unpopular opinion or cause goverment wanting so.
If one is a journalist or activist the argument of reach is only aplying if one is privilidged not getting cencored
Using those networks is brining reach to networks censoring through a centralized power structure.
You're ignorance is silencing others voices.
@mykola uuh no. that's far of my opinion.
ppl say proprietary social networks are good, because you can reach many.
that's as a general statement false.
some can have a great reach. but twitter and co can take it anytime...and they do.
then if one says reach is the reason one uses twitter over fediverse, it's just once ignorance over the cencorship of others.
@paulfree14 I see what you're saying now, sorry for misunderstanding your original post!
I think all of these tools have their place, but yeah - risk of centralized service is that you can easily be turned off or the company can shut down.
But it is absolutely true that twitter posts can reach more people. But I actually think of this as a liability!
@mykola including some of the https://ioo.coop/ points surrounding user ownership of their digital infrastructure.
> Online platforms are transforming our workplaces, relationships, and societies in some troubling ways.
> Huge monopolies are capturing important markets like search, transportation, and social networking
> Users have virtually no control over the platforms that affect their lives
> If users owned their own social media, they could set terms of service in which they keep control over personal data
> Co-op platforms can cooperate with each other by building open-source software for common use
At the end of the day, it is retaking the internet as it is supposed to be: decentralized, resilient and in each individual user in control.
@bortzmeyer I'm less concerned with presenting a false dichotomy. My thrust is (1) Twitter is increasingly and obviously run by white supremacists, and (2) there IS a viable alternative, mastodon, and here are some reasons why it's actually better.
I realize it's not 1:1, that they're different tools, etc. But this case can still be made, I think.
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