Unfortunately, Twitter has a huge critical mass of users and functions as a (publicly traded) public utility. News programs read tweets live on TV. Politicians post statements via tweets too. Earthquake reports come out first via Twitter before official alerts come out - also on Twitter. As for Mastodon, [1]https://twitter.com/gravecat/status/1518598015396818944
On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 11:19 AM Thomas Lord <[2]l...@basiscraft.com> wrote: Why is this hard? A lot of serious people are now looking for an exit from twitter. The ones I see are asking about Mastadon. The FSF front page is a bunch of dust stuff about libreplanet, and they evince no concerted, organized activity to stand up instances and education materials -- to move people to Mastadon. Why else do they exist? It is not enough to "have a position" on twitter. Get to the barricades. I have long been troubled that FSF has devolved to the kind of NPO that exists mainly to provide jobs for the people who operate it, and not to serve a useful social function. Here we have today a clear circumstance in which they can prove me wrong. -t On 2022-04-26 10:50, Kaio Duarte Costa wrote: > Em 2022-04-26 14:37, Thomas Lord escreveu: >> If the FSF is not now going very hard on promoting Mastadon, >> they should never be trusted to anything right again. >> >> :-) >> >> -t >> >> _______________________________________________ >> libreplanet-discuss mailing list >> [3]libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org >> [4]https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discus s > > Hey Thomas, > > I didn't quite understand your message, where is the FSF failing in > promoting Mastodon? By using Twitter which has now been bought by Elon > Musk? > > If this is the case, I recommend you see the page “Is the FSF on > Twitter?” ([5]https://www.fsf.org/twitter) > > Please clarify the points that you consider FSF's low effort in > relation > to Mastodon, to make it easier to understand! > > Sincerely, _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [6]libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org [7]https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discus s References 1. https://twitter.com/gravecat/status/1518598015396818944 2. mailto:l...@basiscraft.com 3. mailto:libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org 4. https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss 5. https://www.fsf.org/twitter 6. mailto:libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org 7. https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
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