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.
Twitter is very friendly to influencers because it automatically boosts popular posts and hashtags. Mastodon doesn’t by design, so they’re gonna have a much, much harder time there.
That’s an okay decision to take, but it makes it hard to grow the network because there’s a lower financial incentive.
There is a trending section, and it does boost popular tags based on user interaction. It doesn’t shovel crap into personal feeds like traditional social media, but it’s not entirely lacking discovery features either.
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.
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 netter than twitter was.
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.
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.
Twitter is very friendly to influencers because it automatically boosts popular posts and hashtags. Mastodon doesn’t by design, so they’re gonna have a much, much harder time there.
That’s an okay decision to take, but it makes it hard to grow the network because there’s a lower financial incentive.
There is a trending section, and it does boost popular tags based on user interaction. It doesn’t shovel crap into personal feeds like traditional social media, but it’s not entirely lacking discovery features either.
Please tell me how I can keep posting to twitter after I was banned for being a journalist?
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.
Make another account
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.
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 netter than twitter was.
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.