Technology
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But I need it for my ________. There are simply no alternatives.
That's what they say.
Then your _________ is a cancer and needs to fail.
I totally get the sentiment... But there are people that I can't get anywhere else.. mostly my local police, fire department, and local govt are only on xitter... Also heavily use for the national weather service, but if drumpy wins that will be going away.
The last couple days I've been investigating if any of those are on threads, so I can try find a way to follow them mastodon... But doubt they have their accounts enabled for the fediverse... But I'd also have to migrate my mastodon account to an instance that hasn't de-federated threads...
The thing is, they are there because the users are there. After all, they want to reach the most people with their important official messaging.
You have to leave to make them leave.
Like it or not, Twitter is still the de-facto place for breaking news stories. You just have to sift through the dross.
As much as Mastodon is a far nicer and healthier social platform, it has a long way to go before it gets anywhere close in this particular regard.
For certain content there really is no alternative. One example would be gaming, almost no studios/developers are on Mastadon.
I do have a gaming-focused Mastadon account and I do use it, but it's not really comparable.
Oh no, what ever would we do without the tweets from game developers? How How will clickbait articles survive? On the plus side, they'd get a lot less death threats for updates to their games. And we wouldn't have a new news article for every fucking tweet that gets made.
I see where you are coming from (even if you are being a bit glib), but the reality is such that the vast majority will go with the flow.
And trust me, my hate for Musk is way more than you can imagine. This is serious stuff.
Are you still using Twitter?
Yes, I do.
My national background and the current situation in my country makes Twitter an important source of information (I follow local news sites as well).
I used the gaming as an example as a more neutral topic of conversation.
Then you are part of the problem.
This also works the other way though - once a critical mass moves elsewhere, the mob is quick to follow. I would encourage you to be part of that early snowball that starts the avalanche - be the change.
I already mentioned that I do use Mastadon. You're preaching to the choir.
As a game developer that has curated my mutual list of fellow developers, I’m saddened by the state of Twitter and genuinely have no alternative. A few folks have left for Threads, Mastodon, and BlueSky, but no community has coalesced on one platform. I would love to leave, but the fact is that if we want to communicate in a similar medium, we have to go where the people are. Right now, the people are still on Twitter.
Indies use twitter to create buzz. Be snide all you like but that's a big deal for those people.
Write to their social media manager and ask them to mirror their content on a mastadon account so their community can grow with those that no longer use twitter.
I actually did try that twice (in a context where they would have more motivation than a typical dev/studio), no luck.
Don't get me wrong, I do think we have to move of corporate social networking systems. I started actively using Lemmy about two months ago and I am enjoying it. However, we do have to be realistic about the state of the market.