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Mike Linksvayer

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One small thing that never ceases to (something less than amaze) me is when I see some free/open/&similar person on twitter only, and they have like 100 followers. They aren't there for the audience. Are they there to follow stars? Or hoping that a star will notice them? Probably (a) it is still nice to be able to see/potentially interact with almost anyone in one place and (b) they just don't know about any of the fragments of the federated social web, or if they do, have a bad impression. I guess I should ask some of them. (b) can be improved, yay!

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Currently I duplicate my messages from identi.ca to other channels. Sometimes I wonder why I still do that. I will admire those who are on twitter but at the same time reject all followers there.

Tyng-Ruey Chuang at 11 years ago

I don't get why they'd be using Twitter (or even worse Facebook) only, but until everyone that matters to you escapes the Lockiverse, I can see why someone might maintain a presence there along with federated networks.

lnxwalt@microca.st at 11 years ago

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The federated social web can hardly compete with any of the attributes that folks value in social networks. It works for me, because I chose to not use them before I became aware of the various projects, but I can think of a lot of benefits that Twitter provides over anything federated.


And Twitter has a lot of problems, chief among them that it is not a safe space! But maybe an unsafe space with lots of people is better than a space of indeterminate safety (I've been harassed on StatusNet) with relatively few people?

maiki at 11 years ago

So, for twitter specifically, it isn't only about "stars" in that person's situation (probably), it could also be about following interesting orgs/etc (non-people).

And the "interesting orgs/etc" category won't come to the federated socweb until they have link click tracking tools that come preconfigured to support them (aka, never). See also: https://identi.ca/eff and https://identi.ca/creativecommons and <insert any other dead attempt at fed socweb from an org here>

Greg Grossmeier at 11 years ago