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in reply to @zdarlight's post:
TBF, for many people (though potentially not the people you're talking about!), there currently aren't good alternatives. Twitter, having tens of times more monthly active users than the Fediverse, close to 200 times more than Bluesky, and about 25,000 times more than here, has still-thriving communities of people that just don't exist elsewhere.
This is a bad situation, and it would be extremely the hell good if people tried to remedy it by at least being active on other places in addition to Twitter! But for many people, I get why they'd be disheartened about how things go on newer, better platforms — there's a difference between "I didn't get into the right order of magnitude of Numbers" and "precisely fucking five people ever interact with my posts".
The latter obviously isn't a problem on here for anyone who's stuck around on here, but that sense of having zero community on a site is pretty off-putting for people who don't post posts that existing users can relate to.
It's just frustrating to me when people are saying in a server full of their friends that they need to be on the site that's just openly going through a fascist takeover and rebranding in order to interact with their friends. Like, there's an alternative right in front of you!!
Yeah, with furries, it's… … …particularly silly to be doing the Twitter-only (or Twitter-first, even) thing at this point. It's still the most useable place for locked AD and vent accounts (most of people's friends probably aren't here, it doesn't have the inter-instance politics of the Fediverse, and it actually has locked accounts, unlike Bluesky), but if you're a furry, there are already many other furries elsewhere.
Which doesn't immediately fix the "my friends aren't here" thing in the slightest, but more people need to take at least the initiative of cross-posting to a few sites to see which alternative sticks in their friend group.
find it funny that the persistent line is that "mastodon is too clunky", then another flash in the pan twitter alternative gets hype before turning out to be even more dysfunctional. i dunno, it's just interesting that mastodon keeps chugging along as the microblogging pepsi in spite of its limited cultural relevance, just by continuing to not make any actively stupid decisions
"continuing to not make any actively stupid decisions" is giving Eugen too much credit.
But yeah, it's done a pretty good job at avoiding missteps grave enough to actually cause… …even a mass move away from the Mastodon software stack, let alone the Fediverse period.
for SERIOUS
"stop complaining and just curate your own experience" is for, like, picking the toppings you don't like off your pizza slice. it does not address the problem of the pizza store owner being an open fascist.
“Well I’VE never gotten rotten ham on my pizza!”
Cool, great! Your pepperoni is still being stored right next to the festering pork!
That second post is why I do not understand the insistence of bluesky.
"Twitter has always had Nazis" and "bluesky is going to be like pre-take over Twitter" are thoughts that can co exist, but they combine to an unappealing sales pitch.
While I don't disagree with the overall point, blaming all problems with other social media purely on numbers being visible is getting trliring. I don't have to see an exact number to know I only got a couple interactions on an art post. (The difference, I guess, being that I only ever got a couple interactions, so the level of engagement hasn't changed.)
In fact, having numbers would be useful if I want to actually get a sense of interest in commissions, so the absence of it is kind of annoying.
I did acknowledge that there were legitimate criticisms, and the folks who were making that point aren't making their living on art.
"twitter has always had nazis," sure, but it wasn't always owned by someone who spends all day openly, publicly deepthroating said nazis so no i would rather Not go back to a website owned by a buffoon who loudly advocates for trans genocide and it makes me feel insane that this isn't a dealbreaker for most people
yeah truth social may be owned by donald trump but it has soooo much activity! my posts get such big numbies there! why should i care who owns it and who predominantly inhabits it? big numbies!!!