I’m on Twitter to follow some pro-labor activists, and the pro-labor activists are on Twitter because that’s where people who most need to see labor actions are. The Fediverse is good if your audience is tech-educated, or if your audience is specific friends and you all switched at once. Retail workers who just had a problem with wage theft and need some advice are probably posting to Twitter and they’re certainly not going to go through learning what the Fediverse is and how to sign up for it on top of stressing about the wage theft.
That’s completely understandable. But those situations can’t be why the majority of why people are still on Twitter right? I mean I might be wrong…but I feel most of the engagement there is for less pertinent stuff?
It’s still a question of audience, even when it’s not a serious subject. Someone who posts nifty history facts or informed opinions about fashion or who made the NY Times bestseller list this week probably prefers talking to a general audience. If Twitter drives off the general audience by letting Nazis and conspiracy theorists run rampant, then they’ll leave, but if someone’s little corner of Twitter isn’t currently attracting bad faith actors it probably seems pretty normal over there (aside from the downtime, but nothing on the internet is immune to downtime).
I’m on Twitter to follow some pro-labor activists, and the pro-labor activists are on Twitter because that’s where people who most need to see labor actions are. The Fediverse is good if your audience is tech-educated, or if your audience is specific friends and you all switched at once. Retail workers who just had a problem with wage theft and need some advice are probably posting to Twitter and they’re certainly not going to go through learning what the Fediverse is and how to sign up for it on top of stressing about the wage theft.
That’s completely understandable. But those situations can’t be why the majority of why people are still on Twitter right? I mean I might be wrong…but I feel most of the engagement there is for less pertinent stuff?
It’s still a question of audience, even when it’s not a serious subject. Someone who posts nifty history facts or informed opinions about fashion or who made the NY Times bestseller list this week probably prefers talking to a general audience. If Twitter drives off the general audience by letting Nazis and conspiracy theorists run rampant, then they’ll leave, but if someone’s little corner of Twitter isn’t currently attracting bad faith actors it probably seems pretty normal over there (aside from the downtime, but nothing on the internet is immune to downtime).