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Staying on twitter because you need the income is an extremely poor long term plan because it will only continue worsening over time

The longer you wait to build a community elsewhere the harder it'll be when you finally have to because twitter can no longer sustain you

"Oh well thats easy for you to say you have 5000 followers on mastodon"

1. Yes because I took my own advice and aggressively invested in other places immediately when the writing for twitter was on the wall

2. I had two and a half times that amount of followers on twitter, AND I'm poor enough that we couldn't run heat all winter, AND I was still on the tail end of a nervous breakdown when I moved here. It was not "easy", but it was necessary, so I did it, because that's how it is on this bitch of an earth

I don't post this to be mean. I'm posting this because I'm concerned for your future

Like 8 Apr 2023 at 8:42 | Open on peoplemaking.games

4 comments

Oblomov

@eniko also, people don't need to quit Twitter “cold turkey”: they can start setting up their presence elsewhere while still holding their place there, so it doesn't even have to be as dramatic as some people try to paint it. And the sooner the start, the earlier they'll have a decent following elsewhere and realize that Twitter didn't have to be the be-all-end-all of their network.

8 Apr 2023 at 8:45 | Open on sociale.network

Nina Roussakoff

@oblomov @eniko That's exactly it. I didn't make my mastodon account with the intent to leave - it was just to take a peek, a just-in-case. But I liked it better here and Musk was getting increasingly insane so I left.

I still have my Twitter account, I just don't use it unless it's to boost someone's post once in a blue moon.

8 Apr 2023 at 8:54 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place

Nina Roussakoff

@eniko It's so low effort as well - all you have to do is have an account and copy-paste your tweets if people are still really attached to Twitter. Heck if their income depends on it, it's an easy way to increase reach.

But people aren't doing it and I think a part of it is the Ostrich Effect. It's too much to face the possibility that Twitter might end up dying. Too scary. So rather than prepare, the brain shuts down and pretends it's not happening.

8 Apr 2023 at 8:51 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place

Eniko | Kitsune Tails out now!

@steamgirl yeah I think that is it. When musk took over, given how much my income was at twitters mercy, I had visions of myself out on the street. It was too stressful to *not* act

8 Apr 2023 at 8:55 | Open on peoplemaking.games