Funny how folks on this site can simultaneously claim that Twitter (Musk's only claim to "internet mogul-ship") is "dying" and that Musk somehow "controls" the Internet. Which is it, folks? You can't believe both things at the same time.
For all the talk about Bluesky's lack of real federation I'd call out the "level 0" practice of federation is that you allow people to link out to other platforms, something we're not seeing with the likes of X and Facebook.
A simple (and explicit) commitment to "I saw something I liked on Mastodon, posted a link to Bluesky, and my followers on Bluesky saw it" goes a long way. Frame it as a litmus test (branding, web site and all) and let X and Facebook make a spectacle by refusing to accept it.
> Hypothetically, you could organize all these people to leave at once, go somewhere else, and re-establish all your social connections. Practically, the "collective action problem" of doing so is nearly insurmountable.
I wonder if we can organize an "alternative social day", where we just all stop using twitter or facebook or whatever for some duration of time, and see what happens.
This idea is based on "World IPv6 Day"[1]. We all knew that IPv4 addresses were going to run out, but we are afraid that something would break if we switch to IPv6. Some big companies got together and say let's just try it for one day and see what would break, and turns out it there weren't significant issues, and IPv6 adoption has been growing since (although it's still not 50%[2]).
Social network effects is not as measurable as IPv6 adoption, but the idea is if a large number of us commit to some date being Mastodon day, Bluesky day, Mixi2 day, etc., and we all tried that for some time to see if nothing breaks, maybe that would be enough momentum to get these other networks rolling.
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[ 4.4 ms ] story [ 27.2 ms ] threadA simple (and explicit) commitment to "I saw something I liked on Mastodon, posted a link to Bluesky, and my followers on Bluesky saw it" goes a long way. Frame it as a litmus test (branding, web site and all) and let X and Facebook make a spectacle by refusing to accept it.
I wonder if we can organize an "alternative social day", where we just all stop using twitter or facebook or whatever for some duration of time, and see what happens.
This idea is based on "World IPv6 Day"[1]. We all knew that IPv4 addresses were going to run out, but we are afraid that something would break if we switch to IPv6. Some big companies got together and say let's just try it for one day and see what would break, and turns out it there weren't significant issues, and IPv6 adoption has been growing since (although it's still not 50%[2]).
Social network effects is not as measurable as IPv6 adoption, but the idea is if a large number of us commit to some date being Mastodon day, Bluesky day, Mixi2 day, etc., and we all tried that for some time to see if nothing breaks, maybe that would be enough momentum to get these other networks rolling.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_IPv6_Day_and_World_IPv6_...
[2] https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html