The TikTok ban and Donald Trump's rise to power show how fragile our social media accounts are. We must normalize and invest in decentralized social media.
  • @Serinus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    99•2 months ago

    The thing about Mastodon for influencers is… you don’t even have to leave Twitter. Just post to both.

    If enough people get into that habit, it makes the transition much easier for everyone.

      • @Serinus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        30•2 months ago

        My point was for people who are scared to leave Twitter. They don’t have to. They can just dip their toes in while still holding their Elon-themed blanket.

        I understand that often you can’t just drop the platform where all the engagement is when your job is to promote something. However, you can still enable people who do want to make the switch.

        • @jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
          2•2 months ago

          That one got banned too. I can’t even signup for a lot of these services. I get banned before I even make a post.

          • @pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3•2 months ago

            You need to use a different device and IP address. IP addresses are a dead giveaway for someone trying to create a second account, and even with a different address, browsers are easy to reliably fingerprint.

            The reason for using an entirely different device* is to prevent advertising crap baked into your software from sending Twitter or other platforms any unique advertising ID associated with one of your old, banned IP addresses.

            *With careful setup, a virtual machine with a dedicated VLAN and internet connection would work.

          • @Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
            3•2 months ago

            Honestly, if you’re going to do both, do bluesky and mastodon. Bluesky isn’t properly decentralised the way mastodon is, but a lot of influential people are there. Also it’s way better than twitter was.

  • @Serinus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71•2 months ago

    It blows my mind that places like the transit systems that were on Twitter haven’t migrated over to their own Mastodon server. They’re not that hard to set up, and there’s so little risk when you just don’t accept public signups on your domain.

    • @DharkStare@lemmy.worldEnglish
      43•2 months ago

      I agree. The Fediverse stuff is really well suited for governments and businesses. They can be in complete control of their instance, post whatever information they want distributed, and they don’t need to rely on any other business for it.

      • @MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
        10•2 months ago

        Yeah. I’m surprised businesses haven’t been quicker to setup self-hosted Mastodon as their primary, and then mirror that to Twitter and Bluesky and such, for disaster recovery protection.

        • @Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
          6•2 months ago

          Businesses I understand because that involves listening to your tech guy and approving time for it, and businesses hate spending money, even if it wouldn’t really cost them that much in practice. They have a lot of institutional inertia.

        • @fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3•2 months ago

          You’d need something that is literally only a few clicks and it’s set up, and it auto updates with 0 user intervention. Until that happens your typical business will never want to touch their own hosted mastodon server.

    • @JubilantJaguar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19•2 months ago

      Completely agree! Seeing the dumb little logos all over timetables and the sides of buses always makes me roll my eyes. First they had to change the “t” logo to the bird, then that’s out of date on a billionaire’s whim and they have to replace it with the apocalyptic “X”. Come on guys, this is getting embarrassing. Stop treating big private companies like Daddy, it’s time to stand on your own feet. The tools are there.

  • @CitizenKong@lemmy.worldEnglish
    69•2 months ago

    What’s happening right now is eerily close to the “Gleichschaltung” that happened after Hitler took over Germany, basically bringing all media in line with the will of the party and the leader. It was news media then, it is social media now. Because for many people, social media is their primary news source.

      • @Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
        16•2 months ago

        The smaller alternatives will get bigger as the mainstream social media gets worse and worse. The job for us, in whatever way we can, is to build the alternatives and make them ready to handle the influx, and make them welcoming to new people.

  • @jaybone@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17•2 months ago

    How much of the fediverse runs on AWS and how willing do we think besos would be to pull the plug on those?

  • Avid AmoebaEnglish
    17•2 months ago

    Go and sprinkle the simplest keywords in the thread - Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed - and tell them your experience.