Gregory's Server@haubles We need more experts and activists to join and maintain a baseline for what is real and important, building a backbone for meaningful pursuit of consensus. This was part of what gave twitter power, and made it such a productive commons for discussion and community. If only for a moment.
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 @haubles organize in cohorts, recruiting groups in related work Science communicators, or infrastructure engineers, or abortion rights activists A cohort model gives people community and discussion on day one. That’s what got me to stick on Twitter, once upon a time. I’d had the account for over a year but when I added my name to a spreadsheet of iPhone devs, I suddenly had a community overnight!  @danilo Oh, interesting... my initial thought is, isn't that built-in by way of your home instance -> local timeline? But then again, I set up shop and migrated off a few instances before I settled here on #Fosstodon. Perhaps it's that discoverability needs to be improved then. @haubles maybe but I think I see this as an organizing problem more than a product or automation problem if you want specialized groups to stick it helps to give them a shared onboarding experience, I think. Then they know they’re in it with other people, they can compare notes, etc what I’m describing is definitely in the vein of the “do things that don’t scale” advice for early startups |
@danilo Yes! And a way to keep those experts and their efforts from fracturing too much, I think... It's a feature of broader open-source communities too. Decentralization creates a wonderful bazaar of different ideas & approaches to the same problem, and that's a Good Thing, but it can also lead to inefficient allocation or use of resources, or great ideas getting lost in the noise. If we want to go far we need to go together.
How do we get them to come?