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@jljcolorado
@jljcolorado Hope you will come back to mastodon, since Twitter is no longer a public space to learn life-saving info re how to reduce covid aerosol transmission.
Your work has helped so many of us stay safe (and contributed to my working model of safer hybrid indoor/outdoor therapy settings- using your classroom exercises calibrating & verifying CO2 indoors) TY!
Thanks for the nudge. The think is that I don't have enough time as it is to do either Twitter or Mastodon or anything else. E.g. I ended up writing a thread this morning because I couldn't sleep, and saw some interesting responses to something I tweeted last night.
I am under the impression that mastodon has very little engagement in terms of users and posts, compared to Twitter. And a lot of folks not using mastodon, including outside the US. Am I mistaken?
@dgurdasani1
For those who are also using mastodon, this is great advice- just tested this. You can use it to automatically crosspost in either direction or both (twitter <-> mastodon) which makes content accessible for those on either platform. Just use this link: http://crossposter.masto.donte.com.br
RT @drallcome@twitter.com
@dgurdasani1@twitter.com Can recommend connecting this crossposter app: https://crossposter.masto.donte.com.br/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/drallcome/status/1593586032724910081
Mastodon Twitter Crossposter
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@jljcolorado Mastodon has some international participation.
But it's networks are less well-integrated, many say by design so cannot be overrun so easily by trolls or billionaires. Seems like Mastodon needs more critical mass & interactions, like a brain developing its neural networks, or a society creating similar.
Tyranny relies on human "efficiency'/laziness. We automatically do what's easiest- it's why I stayed on twitter so long, (until Elon suspended my acct for not giving my phone #)
@jljcolorado That's not been my experience.
I have more followers here than I did on twitter, in a much shorter time period. The discussions are better quality for the most part. Engagement here is different than twitter. It's a slower burn, but higher endpoint.
Engagement here is not rage driven combat to virality which takes getting used to when you come off twitter.
The brigading is much less here. I have personally not been brigaded here once, although I have seen it happen. It happened all the time on twitter. I stopped counting my block list on twitter at 120k. I might have broken 100 here. Moderation is instance dependant but if you choose the right instance much better here.
Automation is very easy here, now nearly impossible on twitter.
One issue you might be having is the instance you chose is somewhat controversial in the fediverse due to its minimalist moderation stance, which may be impacting your visibility & engagement.
Plus you don't support Musk and the alt-right here.
There are more _people_ on Twitter, but in my experience not more engagement (and I've seen other people saying the same).
Covid protection info is valued here - there's a good number of covid-careful people, and I've seen little or no mockery here of still taking it seriously. (though that could be partly because I'm on a science-themed instance - moderation on the Fediverse is primarily handled locally.)
I understand not having time for this stuff, though!
@jljcolorado Elon's latest twitter purge/privatization caused a huge migration wave over to Mastodon in the past few days. Twitter no longer a public square for info, now becoming a private club owned by Elon. BluSky also billionaires profit center (Jack Dorsey teeming up w Elon & supporting RFK anti-vaxer).
Deepti Gurdasani tooted a while ago re how to crosspost twitter & Mastodon, to make communication more efficient (will find & toot to you)
Dangerous when billionaire bullies control info