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irwin

@tchambers Very interesting! Also, I've heard anectdotally that certain communities are splintering to different platforms -- journos to Mastodon and Post, and I've heard some gamers are favoring Cohost. Have you seen other examples of this?

9 Mar 2023 at 13:19 | Wall-to-wall | Open on saturation.social
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Tim Chambers

@irwin We are definitely going to add a section in the next quarter's report specifically on "communities" migration en masse to different platforms.

I think your view on this is right and we'll study in more to try to add hard data to it.

9 Mar 2023 at 13:21 | Open on indieweb.social
irwin
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@irwin @tchambers Now THAT was a very interesting, well researched, thought provoking article.

I have had FB accounts. Same as LinkedIn accounts. I generally find I get blocked from both unless I can prove my identity by sending them a copy of a government issued ID. That's not happening. That ends up with my being barred from the account so I set up a new account with a new name and contact all my friends to tell them the new account name. The cycle of new account then blocking continued until I finally said stuff FakedIn and FakeBook.

There's something morally abhorrent about random websites insisting on seeing government ID when there is no transaction going on. It's like being asked to pay to walk from your car parked outside Office Max to Circuit City because you're walking across the KMart parking lot.

The trouble with FB is too many people believe all their "friends" there are real so they won't leave. They're likely AI bots placed to stop people leaving.

@irwin @tchambers Now THAT was a very interesting, well researched, thought provoking article.

I have had FB accounts. Same as LinkedIn accounts. I generally find I get blocked from both unless I can prove my identity by sending them a copy of a government issued ID. That's not happening. That ends up with my being barred from the account so I set up a new account with a new name and contact all my friends to tell them the new account name. The cycle of new account then blocking continued until I...

9 Mar 2023 at 15:51 | Open on techhub.social
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Aaron Pressman

@tchambers @irwin adding that to my blog immediately

9 Mar 2023 at 14:59 | Open on journa.host
Kuba Suder

@irwin @tchambers yup, I see the same thing - a lot of tech/programming communities e.g. Apple/Swift people seem to favor Mastodon and many have left Twitter, while most politics/news content (e.g. those tracking the war in Ukraine) have stayed on Twitter. Bitcoin/crypto people have stayed on Twitter and also heavily use Nostr now (and I think it's mostly them so far).

9 Mar 2023 at 15:30 | Open on martianbase.net
irwin

@mackuba @tchambers I, for one, am happy the crypto/NFT folks prefer to stay on Twitter! But journalists I think have a difficult problem having to maintain presences on multiple platforms.

9 Mar 2023 at 15:33 | Open on saturation.social
Tim Chambers
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