[fsflover]

> Individual action can't solve problems effectively

Of course it can. Just publish posts on two platforms simultaneously. Or even delay the Twitter post.

[nabla9]

Many do that, but discussion and readers are in Twitter. Crossposting to nothing is cheap but yields nothing.

Cory Doctorow

Mastodon: @[e-mail] 909 Following, 54K Followers

Twitter: @doctorow, 2,814 Following, 494.4K Followers

[andsoitis]

And actually it isn’t that cheap because if you post to say 4 (X, Bluesky, mastodon, Facebook), you now have to choose where you’re going to spend time reading and responding to others. On all of them or just on X, where the gravity is.

[r721]

The problem I rarely see discussed is that if one user I follow posts to Twitter and Bluesky simultaneously and another totally left Twitter for Bluesky I as a Bluesky reader will have a mix of posts I have already seen on Twitter and original Bluesky posts on my timeline. There needs to be a way to somehow mark and filter crossposted content.

[fsflover]

Why would you follow the same person on two platforms if posts are the same?

[r721]

Yeah, that's a fair question and I usually don't do that if user posts more than 1-2 posts per day. But it's hard to know how the account will be used in advance when user says "I made an account on Bluesky, follow me there".

[fsflover]

Obviously you choose a platform which you want to promote. Hopefully the decentralized and FLOSS one (Mastodon).

[fsflover]

To me, you numbers demonstrate that it works very well: compare the whole userbases of the two platforms and you will see that the engagement on Mastodon is larger and growing fast.

[nabla9]

Active number of users has fallen over 1 million from the Twitter exodus times.

There are lots of inactive accounts.