Conversation

Notices

1. Embed this notice
   Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Aug-2026 05:07:19 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

   Hey, all. Thanks for replying.

   This poll came in response to a recent announcement by MacStories that they were going to start posting on X again.

   https://mastodon.macstories.net/@viticci/117134048567780192

   • Embed this notice
     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Aug-2026 05:13:29 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

     in reply to

     There are a lot of angry responses. I found this surprising, since the poster said they'd continue posting on the Fediverse.

   • Embed this notice
     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Aug-2026 05:14:02 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

     in reply to

     I think it's interesting to see that attitude reflected in this poll. It does clarify why that post got such strong negative responses.

     Anyway, I'm much more Fediverse. I care more about whether content is available here than if it's copied elsewhere. I'd rather see content on both than neither.

   • Embed this notice
     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Aug-2026 05:29:48 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

     in reply to

     I get that there are people for whom their primary motivation is stopping X. That's fine; somebody has to do that job. For me, my number one goal is growing the Fediverse and retaining people on the Fediverse.

   • Embed this notice
     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Aug-2026 05:48:31 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

     in reply to

     • Mike Fraser

     @mike agreed!

   • Embed this notice
     Mike Fraser (mike@thecanadian.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Aug-2026 05:48:32 JST Mike Fraser

     in reply to

     @evan Got kind of depressed when I typed "TheCanadian" into google recently and gander.social appeared. I had to type "TheCanadian Mastodon" to even get a hit. What that tells me is that I need to do a better job marketing my instance as do we all. I think a lot of this approach running and instance as a hobby when we really need to seriously think of it as a mission to bring people into a better way of doing social media.

   • Embed this notice
     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Aug-2026 05:58:00 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

     in reply to

     • Mister Shade

     @mister_shade02X2 to some degree.

   • Embed this notice
     Mister Shade (mister_shade02x2@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Aug-2026 05:58:01 JST Mister Shade

     in reply to

     @evan I think, to a degree, the two things go hand in hand.

   • Embed this notice
     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Aug-2026 06:03:54 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

     in reply to

     • Elena Brescacin

     @elettrona what I want is for people to have a choice in what social platform they use without losing connections to their friends, family, colleagues and neighbours. I think that's a worthwhile goal.

   • Embed this notice
     Elena Brescacin (elettrona@poliversity.it)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Aug-2026 06:03:55 JST Elena Brescacin

     in reply to

     @evan The worst approach is "I leave X and join fediverse, to harm Musk"
     I think it's the wrong approach; want me to talk explicitly? I know lots of folks looking for porn on X; publicly available sex related material. And there is a lot - at least until a while ago; I'm trusting people I know and told me, I had other interests. And here, most instances (at least the public ones) prohibit nsfw contents. No idea on mastodon.social, or the biggest. But at least MastodonUno and poliversity, the one I'm in, don't accept adult-only materials and they have their own reason not to.
     I agree with "grow fediverse" rather than "focus on inducing others to leave X", but the question is: what do we want from this growth? If it really grows, we should accept some heavy risks.

   • Embed this notice
     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Aug-2026 07:29:40 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

     in reply to

     • Jason Sadler

     @json you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

   • Embed this notice
     Jason Sadler (json@micro.sadlerjw.com)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Aug-2026 07:29:41 JST Jason Sadler

     in reply to

     @evan I think people would be more understanding if it really just was stuff being copied over to Twitter, like a bot mirroring their site’s RSS feed. I think folks (including me) are upset because Federico and John also reactivated their personal accounts. It seems like they’ll be actively participating over there, not just allowing their stuff to appear there. Especially after they made a big deal years ago about why they left.

     (I respect your position. My priorities differ, which is okay.)