@dangillmor How long 'til X takes the post down?

@dangillmor

👏👏👏 That's the way to do it!

And if you introduce them on your feed, I will follow them, and will toot them out to my dozens (dozens, I say!) of followers.

And here's a tag for people to follow, to not miss any of them:

#MastodonMediaMigration

@dangillmor

Good work. 👍

@dangillmor

"It is those who follow that award power to those who lead."
SearingTruth

@dangillmor has any responded?

@dangillmor yeah like anyone gonna stop Elon Musk to buy mastodon

@dangillmor

Please do the same with scientists and medical specialists.

@dangillmor I absolutely hate the beggars approach, better to step up your game, keep improving and attract them. EARN IT, there is a lot of room for improvement

@dangillmor Any takers?

@dangillmor thank you Dan 🤩👍

@dangillmor
Let me know if I can help. I've been posting encouragement to come here too, but I imagine you know a lot more people than I do.

@dangillmor

Hopefully given the total insanity on Twitter in the wake of the crisis in Israel, some journalists will take you up on your offer.

If they do, this account will join you in helping to promote any journalists who begin to engage here.

For the future of a free press, let's build open social media.

@dangillmor lol help me I left immediately when the acquisition rolled over and lost my entire audience which I had brought over from the blogosphere when I left a media conglom

wouldn’t have done otherwise and knew that’s how it would go because it’s not my first migration, but it do be hard out here

I was @JSto there — so long-time/early publishing there

@dangillmor Anyone who answered? Perhaps they should know that other media already have their own instances here, like e.g. @BBC_News_Labs or @ZDF ?

@dangillmor How would you do this: “bring your Twitter audience along”?

@dangillmor How do you go about doing the "bring the audience along" part?

@dangillmor it’s sad that so many of them will likely wind up on Threads instead.

@dangillmor there's a flaw. There is no monetization here on this platform.

@dangillmor I would expect this message to have almost zero reach on the zombie Nazi site, by design, without consequence, and with complete disregard for how you feel about that.

@dangillmor How many takers have you had Dan? I feel like you're wasting your time, but I'd like you to prove me wrong. It feels like if Twitter were run by the actual third Reich they would still manage some mental contortions to stay on there.

@dangillmor please post the collection of excuses here. Maybe I’ll make bingo cards.

@dangillmor
Would be happy to trial follow any journos who take up your offer.

@dangillmor They are losing audience. I am no longer on twittler. Maybe they only want alt-right and fascist audiences.

@dangillmor You can give them this to find colleagues: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13No4yxY-oFrN8PigC2jBWXreFCHWwVRTftwP6HcREtA/edit#gid=1320898902 (but please not as an open Tweet on the fascist platform).

@dangillmor
Those who migrate first will have the easiest path to regain their audience.

@dangillmor

Tell any of em if they want to hear from other writers what it’s been like they can ping me or email me at clive@clivethompson.net — I’ve been 95% mastodon / 5% bird site for a year now (after years of the inverted ratio)

@dangillmor Excellent, I've been talking about making sure that those of us who know how to set up and maximise the Mastodon experience offer to help anyone serious about posting (as opposed to 100% for entertainment).
One thing I am convinced would be a big help are CSV to import by field of interest. There are many all spread out, but a repertoire would be helpful.

@dangillmor we call it “Branch Plant’n”

@dangillmor
Amen. By now, they have to realize the doom loop Twitter has been reduced to by #MuskRat

@dangillmor any responses?

@dangillmor We will all help. The sooner #Twitter dies the better it will be for the universe.

@dangillmor

I honestly don’t understand why any person or entity of any integrity is still on #Twitter. I can only explain it as a kind of persistence of motion, easier to roll along than to exert energy to disrupt that motion and change direction.

Anytime I visit a website and see “Follow us on” with a bird logo, I lose respect for that person or company. I think I’ll start letting them know: “I want to patronize you, but I find it difficult to trust you given your social media policy.”

@dangillmor I’ve migrated 99 percent of my activity to here and to Bluesky, but I’d love help bringing followers along

@dangillmor

thank you for doing this.

@dangillmor Good luck. I've pretty much given up on prying anyone off twitter who hasn't left it already (or even started posting to any non-tech-bro-owned platform). Maybe if we offer them sponsorships and ad deals? (that seems to be the main motivation for a lot of them refusing to budge)

(I'm being sarcastic about the sponsorships)

@dangillmor
Make sure to offer it on Blusky as well, it is the currently most hyped x alternative

(No takers so far...)

@dangillmor

First although you know you posted it, is anyone actually seeing it? I wouldn't put it past X to filter individual tweets that mention Mastodon and migrate.

Next X is taking heat for the misinformation surrounding the Israel attack.

Is the information on Mastodon better and why?

@dangillmor

I'm sure you know your friends better than I but I have followed you for a short bit here on masto and I can confidently say that you are truly polarized on your twit/masto opinions...that might have an impact on your audience's reception of the message.

You catch more flies with honey is a universal truth. Lure them don't berate them for their current pattern perhaps?

I love that you are here and want your ilk to come too because it is where I want to engage with others. Thanks.

@dangillmor

It’s not going to happen. Journalists subjects are on twitter (governments, companies, etc).

Mastodon doesn’t have the #s or the interface or onboarding, and I have spoken to many at length.

@dangillmor ✊ Respect