Post AWbkKILH0nfYkCQMIS by zalintyre@chaos.social
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(DIR) Post #AWbe9HPnWEEixUu9wG by alexelcu@social.alexn.org
2023-06-12T06:04:08Z
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If #Reddit winds down, along with the #Scala subreddit, I'll miss it, as it's been a reliable source of news.Reddit's story is yet another example of why FOSS communities need to own their primary communication channels.I can't believe that some software developers still use #Twitter, despite seeing what it has become, despite engagement going down for everyone but the blue-check trolls. It seems the lock-in effect continues even after many of your acquaintances have long moved on.
(DIR) Post #AWbgL5raUfTyVyfFFA by zalintyre@chaos.social
2023-06-12T06:28:40Z
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@alexelcu "but we have followers here!" "but nobody is on Mastodon!" "but!"...I have been fighting this for over a year now 😮💨
(DIR) Post #AWbhRfI9mfba5OmzLM by alexelcu@social.alexn.org
2023-06-12T06:41:05Z
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@zalintyre When I retired my Twitter account, I think I had over 6000 followers; not a high number, but not small either.The issue is that many of those followers were, in fact, inactive and getting more so by the day. Except for some posts that got a lot of traction once in a blue moon, I'm getting more engagement on #Mastodon now than I did on #Twitter.And I feared that traffic to my website would go down, but it didn't. And Twitter is becoming more hostile to external links anyway.
(DIR) Post #AWbkKILH0nfYkCQMIS by zalintyre@chaos.social
2023-06-12T07:13:21Z
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@alexelcu seeing quite the same here - I had a twitter account since 2010 and built up like 150 followers - now i have 110 followers on Mastodon in a little bit more than a year and as you said, way more engagement.
(DIR) Post #AWbnfeirITLU6EKiv2 by som_snytt@fosstodon.org
2023-06-12T07:50:50Z
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@alexelcu twitter is where I commiserate with 2 or 3 other people who care aboutWordle 723 3/6*⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛🟨🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩but it seems to be down, to coin a phrase.
(DIR) Post #AWcCXjklCt3sEtXlEu by vascorsd@mastodon.social
2023-06-12T12:29:29Z
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@alexelcu one day we will discuss the whole discord problem too 😱
(DIR) Post #AWcGrloZeSEkF18SLA by ross@social.rossabaker.com
2023-06-12T13:17:56Z
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@alexelcu While I agree with your general point on FOSS, the gamified nature of Reddit and Twitter is a combustive mix with the toxicity of the Scala community. Being an asshole for Internet Points extends your reach on those platforms in a way that it doesn't here, and we see vastly different behavior. I wonder how a Kbin or Lemmy -- FOSS, but with Internet Points -- would go.
(DIR) Post #AWcPgWWx2LKhEwbXjU by melroy@mastodon.melroy.org
2023-06-12T14:56:46Z
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@alexelcu I'm gone from Twitter as well :D