Okay, uncomfortable question time:
We were all clearly capable of switching over to a new microblogging service, even this one, last month.
Why didn't this happen until after the election, when Musk got what he wanted out of Twitter & it's too late to go against the plan currently underway?
We were all clearly capable of switching over to a new microblogging service, even this one, last month.
Why didn't this happen until after the election, when Musk got what he wanted out of Twitter & it's too late to go against the plan currently underway?
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With the last few coming over and Musk getting his way, *delete*
I know lots left after Musk’s antisemitic remarks last year.
Was a slow process until it hit critical mass
So I just stopped that too. When bluesky first came around I figured “eh. I don’t need it”.
Since the influx I figured I’d try again.
1. Some didn't want to leave the comfort zone they had.
2. Some can't/won't look away when they see a dumpster fire.
3. No snowflake ever thinks it helped cause the avalanche.
https://every.to/p/breaching-the-trust-thermocline
Also not all the world is American and their social media decisions are not tied to the American election, despite Musk and all.
It was fantastical wishful thinking, but I understand.
But I have been here and Mastodon.
Elon, the Right and the extreme did a great job to push ppl off their daily routine.
I don’t fault people who didn’t come over earlier but it may be either a) their social group hadn’t moved and they were unwilling to be the first or b) they were unwilling to start over without their follower count.
I’ve found a great community here.
Switching to a new service involves facing that ugly truth.
But you need a mass exodus like this to retain bar buddies, which is why it took so long.
I really wish a lot of the great authors and good people on Xitter had at least started splitting their time over here earlier, but I "get it" that the apparent engagement on the birb site was hard to leave.
Just in hindsight I wish there had been closer to a critical mass on BSky earlier. The mass exodus waited until the election propaganda had already had full effect.
I was confident earlier, having already spent time on Mastodon that community building (INFOSEC for me) was going be better here.
Apparently “looks like we’re gonna be run by fascists” was the trick.