Seriously, everyone here, if you know somebody still using Twitter, you should take the time to inform them about mastodon and explain why continuing to use that dying abusive platform and give Musk legitimacy is a bad idea.
The moment you get actual content creators to move off twitter and provide their content on mastodon, I'm deleting it too. Until then I don't really see mastodon being a proper replacement, if anything it looks like bsky is taking the lead in that area unfortunately. Besides, half of mastodon community is seemingly against the idea of becoming mainstream anyway... so I dunno if it's ever going to work out that way.
As somebody who produces content (with a full time job so not as often as I like) it's so much harder to get engagement on mastodon without the algorithm tbh. I'm trying to get my name out there but engagement is slim to none compared to say, Instagram. I'm not on Twitter but both BlueSky and Mastodon have been a struggle. I don't see myself devoting too much energy into them as far as posting content goes tbh.
You're not going to argue them out of Twitter. If they're still there, it's not for rational reasons. It's because of nostalgia, or because they're part of communities that are stuck facing the Fiddler on the Roof problem.
Shaming them for staying isn't going to work, either. We need to make a space for them to move to, not away from, and, frankly, the Fediverse just isn't that right now.
Can we simply stop talking about Twitter? At this time, we're just drawing traffic to articles about it, encouraging more free advertising for Twitter to be made
It was a great place to share information in a short and clear manner. You could subscribe to journalists working in your area, a professor from MIT or another university, follow sport journalists, war analysts - you name it. They all posted their thoughts and links to their articles, interviews or podcasts with them, they shared information about their new books. Twitter was like an RSS feed, where you could subscribe to authors directly. You could write them and get a reply! It was and probably still is a great tool, though Musk is taking a lot of steps to destroy it.
To be fair, the only thing I ever used it for was emergency reporting.
If he scales it back so that the only free and public feature is tweets of 250 characters or less, I may actually visit it again. Assuming my ad blocker works.
It was like this on the Flamingo app aswell and I prefered it that way. I almost never interact with any tweets so those buttons were just useless clutter for me.