There are still people who are happy enough on Twitter for now, but who might want to share an interesting post from mastodon.social. Not everyone is the comically exaggerated caricature you have in your head, most people are just normal users that want to tweet things to their friends.
So others know where to find you - there's a bunch of tools for that, but unless you use the same one it doesn't work. Can't think of a more efficient way personally. Though I don't think anyone needs to be obnoxious about it with series of tweets and stuff.
It's a lot harder to decentralize when you have decentralized tools...
There's some corollary here to the law of momentum that allows social networks to become juggernauts. It probably applies to repressive governments as well. Maybe: The more entrenched the system is, the more you have to use the system's own tooling to get people to escape it?
I wasn't referring to anything in the article or about including your Mastodon handle in your user name or description. Some people though keep tweeting how they "left Twitter", cross post content etc. I find that a wee bit obnoxious - but since I don't really use Twitter anymore it doesn't bother me, I could just understand someone wanting to take action based on it.
why can't I post links to my mastodon.social posts then? (I'm on Twitter, and I've been in Mastodon for many years -- this hasn't been the case before).
Imagine buying something for $44 billion and due to your own actions causing a mass exodus to Mastodon. Of course you're going to try and make the exodus as hard as possible.
And by that same action (and others) confirm explicitly to everyone that your stated reasons for buying the platform were bullshit and you are in fact a hypocrite with dictatorial tendencies.
Thus reinforcing the reasons for people leaving.
> Also why do you need to post links on Twitter, i though you were leaving the platform?
If you change your address, it makes sense to share your new address with contacts? If you change cell provider because they suck you probably would give your new phone number to your contacts. How is this not 100% obvious to you?
Because most of the tech sphere is all in when it comes to rooting for a certain political side and for its associated worldview, some call it “liberal” but is anything but. They deserve everything that is coming their way, after 2+ years of those people banning and cancelling other people and stuff based on “science!” and the like (I’m triple vaccinated, adding this because it needs to be added, as that’s the level of discourse we’ve got to in the West in the last few years).
Glad to hear, but I get a totally different impression from forums like this one, from following a couple of techies on Twitter or from actual campaign contributions info (I’m talking about the US).
Also from the info of that Google tech guy that got fired after an internal memo, or of the creator of JavaScript the language also getting the boot.
