Chris Trottier
Social networks are not always about how many people use them, but more specifically *who* uses them.
Twitter itself was never that popular compared to Facebook.
It always had an outsized influence on public culture due to who used it.
Well, now tech people and academics have migrated over to the Fediverse.
Which means that if you want to talk to tech people and academics, you have to figure out how to use it.
For many people, the Fediverse is becoming critical for work.
Chris Trottier
In fact, the Fediverse is now so critical to the tech industry that GitHub rolled out support for Mastodon profiles this month.
That's not a small thing.
Again, if you want to talk to tech people, a Fediverse presence is paramount.
https://mastodon.social/@nova@hachyderm.io/109790532829442644
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Chris Trottier
Whether Elon Musk likes it or not, tech people have important things to say that a whole lot of other people want to read.
For example, here's Google employee @johnmu talking about search engine optimization.
https://mastodon.social/@johnmu/109879325577937391
This is actually something that a lot of publications might want to report on.
Chris Trottier
So basically, if you want to hear from tech people, you must use Mastodon.
But according to Elon Musk, why would you do that? Tech people have nothing worth saying anyway. And he hopes they stay on Mastodon.
Chris Trottier
Zooming out to this whole conversation on Twitter because it really is bizarre. To summarize:
Tracy Chou: I don't like that I have to use Mastodon to read stuff from tech people.
Doge Guy: Tech people have nothing worth hearing anyway.
Elon Musk: I hope tech people stay on Mastodon.
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