If only there was some alternative ...
From the BBC - Twitter can’t protect you from trolls any more, insiders say
I find it alarming and depressing that a BBC Disinformation and social media correspondent does not appear to be aware that there are options that the people who have joined the #TwitterMigration have found to be better.
They should also look to supplement the section they put onto every web page which points people to their Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn (and in some cases Google+) presence with a link to their Fediverse presence, wherever that may be.
@milica_m @thomasfuchs If there are SEO issues then they are probably in the heads (or sales pitches) of people who want to sell more domain names. There seems to be quite a good correlation between organisations who understand the internet, and use its tree structure to good effect and those who hope it will all go away soon. It is good to be a tree
@osdc Interesting article, dating back to 2018, so some of the links are now dead, or point to marketing sites. but still interesting and valid. The link to Creative Commons content on Vimeo was interesting. I look forward to the day when there will be as much good content on Peertube.
@rysiek many people think they only have a choice between Feudal solutions. Much of this is because they are perceived as easier, and there also a big ‘real life’ social factor. There are lots of people who have used, say, Facebook for ages, and who are quite willing to share their knowledge, thus becoming ambassadors and unpaid sales people for the big brands.
Where do people go from Twitter
I know I am, literally, preaching to the converted here, but heard a BBC radio journalist this lunchtime saying how sad she was that Twitter was going downhill and she would have to switch to Instagram, i.e leave the domain of Lord Musk, for Lord Zuckenberg. No thought of the Fediverse. Some people are determined to live in a Feudal Internet.
re: imma blow your mind rn
@blaine @sivy @cwebber @knowtheory I remember writing in GML, a very long time ago. The similarity to the Unix man format is interesting and is probably because they both (probably) descended from runoff
@blaine I believe Governments should run Federated Social Media instances for themselves - really like the approach of @EU_Commission who seem to be getting the major European institutions using the fediverse to engage with citizens. Although a huge fan of libraries, I think apart from, e.g. The Bodleian, general public libraries (which The Bod is not) are too diffuse to be an instance. (but I may be wrong)
Wonderful Life
The Fediverse can be regarded as a ecosystem, and at present it is going through its Cambrian Explosion. As per the Wonderful Life Theory I hope we will emerge as “thousands of twigs on a vigorous bush”
@rbairwell @katebevan Publishers may also have a role as financial middle men - I pay for the BBC through a licence fee, and subscribe to The Guardian, Scientific American etc, and they distribute the money. For the Fediverse to succeed the issue of how it is funded has to be solved.