Matthew Carpenter

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I think we need to approach this from two perspectives:

1. Promoting the #ActivityPub #Fediverse. And that's more than just #Mastodon

Mastodon's popularity can be used to leverage users to other Fediverse platforms. Whether that's #PeerTube #PixelFed, #Lemmy, #Friendica, etc

2. The competitors. #Twitter #Reddit #Facebook #Instagram etc

We need an organized presence on those sites to help migrate people. Every single user matters. Even just placeholder accounts.

Help get them over here.

The Breadth of the Fediverse | Electronic Frontier Foundation #mastodon #fediverse https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/breadth-fediverse
The Breadth of the Fediverse

The Washington Post recently published an op-ed by Megan McArdle titled "Twitter might be replaced, but not by Mastodon or other imitators." The article argues that Mastodon is falling into a common trap for open source projects: building a look-alike alternative which improves things a typical...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
@llbbl @lolennui Yeah. I guess my sarcasm isn’t as good in writing 🤣🤣
@llbbl @lolennui I teach technology and I do have a few book readers. A few 🙁
Twitter May Soon Be Irrelevant, Thanks to a Mastodon Version of Tweetbot https://www.lifewire.com/twitter-may-soon-be-irrelevant-thanks-to-a-mastodon-version-of-tweetbot-7099574
Twitter May Soon Be Irrelevant, Thanks to a Mastodon Version of Tweetbot

When Twitter blocked third-party apps, it made the service harder to use for some people. Now, a new client for Mastodon, called Ivory, is moving that functionality to a social media service that can't be bought or blocked.

Lifewire
@jaredwhite hey Elon….wake up and read this.
@terhechte I’m all in for that!
@lolennui as an educator of 20+ years the problem is students don’t know how to turn the book on. 🤦🏻‍♂️
@liztai probably same trolls who think Trump actually had Covid. Publicity stunt.