“When did I lose my virginity? You lost it now. I lost it 12 years ago. And I'll tell you exactly where I lost it: In the Council of European Finance Ministers in my first meeting.”
— Yanis Varoufakis, June 8th 2026 in a conversation with Hasan Piker
Hey folx! You probably see a lot of stuff from other social networks mirrored to Mastodon, how about we do it the other way around?
Recently, I've starred to mirror my posts to Instagram, Reddit, and other platforms, and I've had quite the success. My biggest post on Instagram, which is just one screenshot of a Mastodon post, has 44.5k likes and 256k views. My biggest post on Reddit, which is also one Mastodon post, has over 48.5k likes and 3.4 million views. Why don't we do to them what they do to us? Flush their networks with signs of the open web!
I think this is a good start for platform visibility: People need to see this platform not just when it specifically is advertised as an alternative, but when a good joke or political take is made. Of course we are inherently against this market logic and thoughts aren't just worth while when they reach virality. Unlike most social networks, Mastodon isn't a digital sweat shop instrumentalizing their user's posts made from a desire to socially connect with peers as a front for ads and data harvesting. Your thoughts shouldn't adhere to a logic of marketability, not here. If you want a method to share your posts to other platforms, maybe to also build a following there, but mainly to bring attention to Mastodon, I'll explain my method here. ⬇️
someone explained to me why they had three instagram accounts and i really didn't get it. like, a private one (sure, whatever) but then a... secondary private one (was the first one for friends and the other for family?? you're not even a public figure, what does public mean in this context??)
recently i met someone with 4 instagram accounts (this person was a cis white man who didn't transition or had multiple names or anything) and i just... didn't get it. Like, why? now i follow all four of them and whenever i see a post i don't get why it wasn't posted on one of the other ones. the whole system doesn't make any sense to me.
like, sure, i post everything public under my full legal name and that's stranger and a privilege, just... i wouldn't be able to put in the effort?? to run all these accounts???
and whenever i confront someone and ask them what they're all for, where the differences lie, they are never capable of giving me a satisfying answer.
cis white male here: yeah, i don't understand your actions in the slightest and now want you to explain to me all the forms of marginalization that you experienced causing you to take precautions that i never had to even consider
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