Gregory's Server@ajroach42 However. Twitter was a “place” where various marginalized groups found community — Black, disabled, trans, and others. Mastodon, precisely because it is structured differently, can not recreate that. “Even if you could somehow magically get all of disability Twitter to move to the same alternative social media platform, we would be siloed in a way where the rest of the world wouldn’t have to see us anymore,” Tait says. https://time.com/6230469/disability-users-twitter-elon-musk/ “Black folks used Twitter to circumvent mainstream channels and get their voices heard, creating hashtags like #OscarsSoWhite and powering generation-defining protest movements around racial justice, gender, and sexual equality.” https://www.wired.com/story/black-twitter-elon-musk/
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@hestes @ajroach42 Let’s hope (& help, when we can) that the Fediverse will evolve solutions to this sort of community-building and outreach as more people join. Twitter didn’t start out that way & a lot of what made it good came from its users, not from the technology as such @ajroach42 my point is that there were advantages to the way Twitter worked, especially in the early years, and that there are those who worry that the nature of Mastodon will mean that sub-communities are siloed in different nodes rather than participating in wider conversations. |
@hestes @ajroach42 hi. I’m new to mastodon so I might be wrong as I’ve not yet figured it fully out. My understanding is if a post/idea is interesting, it will be boosted many times gaining momentum and attention and will flow across instances. I had a Twitter account for 12 years and barely posted it. I’ve had more conversations here in two days than I had in 12 years. I am hoping this will have the same opportunities without the toxic abuse