Me: "Almost 500 people follow me on Mastodon!" 🎉
Coworker: "You could have had 300K followers on Twitter by now."
Me:
@Gina What a statement: You could have 299.500 Nazis following you, why wouldn't you want this? 😂
@sphinxc0re Meh, being blonde and blue eyed nazi's generally left me alone on Twitter. Incels however..
@Gina Not as annoying though, are they?
@sphinxc0re Dunno, the rape and death threats got old really fast.
@Gina Oh, yeah, sorry, I totally forgot about the misogyny that comes with Incels...
are you still active on twitter?
@sphinxc0re Nope, although lately I've been thinking about setting one up again. Unfortunately there's still a lot of valuable IT news found there. How about you?
@Gina FYI I use a crossposter so my fediverse posts appear on my Titter account (I have it set so those with @mentions don't get crossposted). That way folks still there can still follow and boost my posts without me having to login and interact with it.
@sphinxc0re
@strypey @sphinxc0re I'm thinking of doing the same.
@Gina @strypey @sphinxc0re
Using #Twitter gives TWTR power. Some of us cannot or will not use Twitter. If you mirror all your posts on Twitter, you become part of the problem by failing to give ppl a reason to step outside of twitter.
@Gina @strypey @sphinxc0re
Note as well that twtr is #tor-hostile & often forces users to supply their private ph# to Twitter. By putting content on twtr, you become an enabler by which ppl are pushed into mass surveillance & needless over-sharing of data.
@resist1984 @strypey @sphinxc0re Fair enough, you make a good point.
@resist1984 The only reason I crosspost on Titter is because some people are already choosing to be there, regardless of how much I've advised them against it (to the point of being annoying). Also, because why marginalize ourselves by only posting our stuff within our own small bubble? #POSSE TFW! If you look at my Titter feed (which you can do with JS disabled), you'll see I proudly emphasize that I mainly post on the fediverse and encourage others to join us here.
@Gina @sphinxc0re
@Gina @strypey @sphinxc0re
I suggest creating an idle twtr account with the sole purpose of telling ppl where your Mastodon page is. If you must reply to a twtr post, then reply in your #mastodon acct & make the twtr response strictly a link to the mastodon reply so they must leave twtr to read it.