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   Tali (taliesin@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 05:30:18 JST Tali

   what's your take on Mastodon being bad for disabled people trying to keep their businesses going and that losing that ability they had with Twitter and it's algorithm is a bad thing that Mastodon is not equipped to stand in for. i feel like this is a better space for disabled people forming community, but trying to find interest in their businesses here might be more of a problem. which does seem losing Twitter is bad for them in that respect. i wonder how we here at Mastodon could fix this issue here.

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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 05:30:17 JST hypolite

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     @taliesin What was good about the Twitter algorithm for disabled people trying to get their businesses going?
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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 05:44:05 JST hypolite

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     @taliesin How so? How would their Twitter post be shown to people not following them?
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     Tali (taliesin@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 05:44:06 JST Tali

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     @hypolite easier for them to have reach and get their product out to the masses that might not be following or interacting with them

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     Tali (taliesin@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 05:45:03 JST Tali

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     @hypolite tbh I'm probably not the best person to ask since I haven't been on Twitter for 2 years and only see the current discussion about this via friends. But I know it's a discussion on Disability Twitter right now

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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 05:49:27 JST hypolite

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     @taliesin No worries, I was just wondering what "the issue" was.
     
     Content discovery is possible on the #Fediverse, maybe not exactly like it was on Twitter if it is even possible to describe, but there are several avenues to explore:

     • Hash tags now have increased importance thanks to the newly released feature allowing to follow specific tags regardless of who's using it among the posts the user instance knows about.
     • Local and federated timelines allow for content discovery as well. A strongly themed instance (like mastodon.disabled-businesses.com for example) would probably have a local timeline homogenous enough to promote its users' work.
     • In case spinning up a specialized instance isn't possible, cross-referencing other people in a virtual business association is a way to promote each other's work.

     As a general rule, the #Fediverse empower its users, which means that a few features that are controlled by a single company on proprietary platforms are now mostly in the hands of the users here. It affords some degrees of freedom but it does require more legwork, for sure.