DrBob 😎Mastodon for Harris 😎
DrBob 😎Mastodon for Harris 😎  ·  last week
STOP #ENSHITIFICATION

Support #Mastodon!

I would like to use Bluesky. They’ve done a bunch of seriously interesting technical work on moderation and ranking that I truly admire, and I’ve got lots of friends there who really enjoy it.

But I’m not on Bluesky and I don’t have any plans to join it anytime soon. I wrote about this in 2023: I will never again devote my energies to building up an audience on a platform whose management can sever my relationship to that audience at will

@pluralistic
#bluesky #x #twitter #facebook #socialmedia #enshitification
https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-11-02-ulysses-pact-tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast-b2f89bb5b4d8

Eugen Rochko
Eugen Rochko  ·  last week
Mastodon is benefitting from the #X exodus (eXodus?) too: The official app downloads are up 47% on iOS and 17% on Android. Sign-ups are up approx. 27% compared to previous month with about 90K new accounts, while the MAU has jumped to 894K (across all Mastodon servers).
Stefan Bohacek
Stefan Bohacek  ·  2 weeks ago
"The Guardian said content on the platform about which it had longstanding concerns included far-right conspiracy theories and racism. It added that the site’s coverage of the US presidential election had crystallised its decision."

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/13/the-guardian-no-longer-post-on-x-twitter-elon-musk

Here's a donation link with a "one time" option at the bottom for anyone who'd like to show them support.

https://support.theguardian.com/us/contribute

#news#TheGuardian #twitter #x#SocialMedia

Martin Holland
Martin Holland  ·  2 weeks ago
Exactly two years ago, we started to post links on #Mastodon via our account @heiseonline 👇

https://mastodon.social/@heiseonline/109314036284496776

It took longer, than I expected, but here we are: it seems like this account now brings continuously more #traffic to heise.de than #X (#Twitter) in its entirety, although it only has ¼ of the follower number (and many of them don't seem to be active anymore).
I'll prepare some graphs after the weekend.

#SocialMedia
#TwitterExodus
#MastodonMigration
#TwitterMigration
#Fediverse

Martin Holland
Martin Holland  ·  2 weeks ago
The week is over, here are some charts:
For two weeks in a row, #Mastodon brought more #traffic than #X / #Twitter to heise.de.
But I forgot, that's not just via @heiseonline, but also @heisec, @ct_Magazin, @heiseautos, @iX_Magazin etc. (but for Twitter its the same).

#Bluesky is way behind, #Threads even more. Only Twitter is clearly falling.

(🧵 1/3)

#SocialMedia
#TwitterExodus
#TwitterMigration
#MastodonMigration
#Fediverse

Martin Holland
Martin Holland  ·  2 weeks ago
Exactly two years ago, we started to post links on #Mastodon via our account @heiseonline 👇

https://mastodon.social/@heiseonline/109314036284496776

It took longer, than I expected, but here we are: it seems like this account now brings continuously more #traffic to heise.de than #X (#Twitter) in its entirety, although it only has ¼ of the follower number (and many of them don't seem to be active anymore).
I'll prepare some graphs after the weekend.

#SocialMedia
#TwitterExodus
#MastodonMigration
#TwitterMigration
#Fediverse

Carl Sullivan
Carl Sullivan  ·  3 weeks ago
I joined Twitter in 2008, making 7,500 posts through the years. I deactivated my X account today.

I greatly curtailed my usage of the platform since November 2023, when my employer @Flipboard pulled back from engagement. And I haven't posted since April but kept it open for work reasons (to monitor news, etc.).

Why today? The U.S. election made clear how many of my fellow Americans live entirely in "alternative facts" ecosystems. I no longer wish to participate in such a platform — so rife with unchecked misinformation and disinformation ... basically an outrage machine where the algorithm rewards lies and conspiracy theories.

If you're still on X, why?

I screenshot my profile for posterity. And here's also Flipboard's 2023 announcement.

#Goodbye#X#Twitter#SocialMedia#Mastodon#MastodonMigration#Misinformation#Facts

Newsmast
Newsmast  ·  3 weeks ago
It's time for charities and for-good organisations to ditch X - a platform which helped grow and fund the Trump campaign - and move to alternatives where they aren't at the mercy of a single persons politics.

As a start, we're excited to be featured as an organisation which can help in this @BylineTimes article

There's a lot of hard work to be done, but we like hard work. Hard work is good work.

https://bylinetimes.com/2024/11/07/x-odus-charities-and-campaigners-to-abandon-musks-twitter-after-trump-endorsement/

#Fediverse#Charity#NGO#News#USPol#Politics#X#SocialMedia#Twitter

Stefan Bohacek
Stefan Bohacek  ·  2 months ago
I hope this inspires other independent creators to leave toxic platforms like X and Substack behind.

"We’re much less vulnerable to platform shifts than we were before. I had long worried that Substack’s unprofitable business would eventually lead it to make decisions that were not in the best interest of our readers or our business. (Besides not removing literal 1930s Nazi content, I mean.)"

https://www.platformer.news/leaving-substack-platformer-year-four/

#x #twitter #substack #creators#SocialMedia

Jon S. von Tetzchner
Jon S. von Tetzchner  ·  4 months ago
With more than 100 million followers, the damage by Elon Musk is substantial. Media is not perfect, but the likelihood of finding accurate information on Twitter is getting lower each day. You really have to look for it. The algorithm that decides that the first post you see if from Elon every single time, even if you do not follow him, ensures that misinformation rules.

#Twitter#X#ElonMusk#Mastodon