cats of yore are u having success over on threads i have never been but i have been getting a lot of messages telling me to go there so a lot of my twitter followers must be over there
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The easier you way to do it, at least for me, is that I've set up split tabs in my browser, and I use those tabs to show me blue sky and threads in one pane
I started an account to check it out when it first started but haven't been back since. I'm on Tumblr, mastodon, instagram, and spoutible but post the most here. Maybe I should add threads to the lineup.
cats of yore i am only on blue sky but i do think threads will end up being a pretty major exposure driver for large accounts like yours much closer to how twitter was it just seems to have a big audience potential
I'll probably add it. I post more conversationally here, for the rest of them I do an assembly line post twice a day (once for twitter). I open each one in a tab and post the image to each, then the ALT text, the text, the source, and copy and paste site-specific hashtags from the notes app.
Several of the larger accounts now on Threads have compared interaction on the bad site to what they get on Threads, and even with fewer followers they get higher interaction.
I have heard from sex workers that because Threads is associated with instagram and fb they will scrape your data. Someone had their professional sw name changed to their actual name with no warning.
They’ve been doing shady shit like that for years and I don’t know why anyone still trusts them enough to use any of their social media sites between that and Cambridge Analytica
I’m very skeptical of Threads. Zucks is a big fan of disinfo, like Mucks. I’m on Mastodon and here now, but adding more single-owner SM to my repertoire concerns me.
Exactly. I chose this over Threads because Zuck isn't much better than Musk and I sure as shit wouldn't want the assumption that his platform will be the one to fill the twitter vacuum because it has meta behind it become a self fulfilling prophecy. Bluesky has been nothing but wonderful so far.
These decisions would be easy peasy if I was just doing this for fun, but by running Cats of Yore I've been able to raise over $50,000 for shelters, low cost TNR clinics, and farm sanctuaries plus finding homes for special needs cats. So it's not really black and white for me. 😢
Honestly I chose this because I can have blusky on pc and use pc version online. Threads is mobile only and I’m not super fond of using my phone as my computer
Hey Lydia,
We are actually the only one that does! https://fedica.com/social-media/bluesky
and I would argue it's more advanced for the legacy socials too (but I am biased of course)
May I ask where you are on Mastodon? I'm still new there, just joined with my favourite SM hangout closing down, and I'm leaning towards it over BSky, honestly. But I lack historical cats. :-)
I'm at @[email protected]. My boyfriend created "varmint town" just for us so I wouldn't have to worry about the content warning rules of other servers.
That's exactly the thing I want to do, run my own server so it's completely privacy protected. It's surprisingly...not easy to get started. Well done to him for working it out, I'm currently a bit stumped! I'll get there though.
Threads isn't available in the EU. That'll massively curtail it's usefulness for political issues. But I think cat content won't be worsened by the absence of French or German or Czech (etc) cats.
Yes they are. I only stay there for my journalist and Jeopardy friends and old pals who haven't made the shift. I tricked the algoritm into keeping Elmo out of my stream.
darth - I moved here because twitter/X isn't fun anymore. I was so excited to find you and so many others that I was missing there. DogRates isn't over here, but so many of the cats I follow are here.
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This account, like my past twitter was to follow writers, pundits and fun accounts.
Getting followers is low priority.
But I assume with bigger followings... it's easy to post elsewhere, but hard to keep up on replies?
We are actually the only one that does!
https://fedica.com/social-media/bluesky
and I would argue it's more advanced for the legacy socials too (but I am biased of course)
I don't count fb but got dragged in for family.
/goes off to find you there
also just found you on mastodon, so now my feed over there is hourlykittens and catsofyore
/i'm sure i'm doing social media exactly right ;)
And once the ActivityPub connection is released, it will connect to all Fediverse servers + WordPress.
stay with us.