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I’m worried that the last few weeks have made us think the problem is Twitter’s leadership when maybe the real problem is Twitter.
@hankgreen I think that the leadership has created a very different set of problems than Twitter previously had.
I also knew a lot of people who worked at Twitter (and of course no longer do) who were amazing researchers and designers, and were working to make things better. I no longer think there is a possibility for things to get better.
Also I said goodbye Twitter officially today!
@cfiesler this makes a lot of sense. I just think it’s a very very very hard thing to make better. Even if you take the profit motive out it’s hard.
@hankgreen Agreed. :( I'm hoping that between Mastodon (talking to other academics/scientists) and TikTok (talking more to the general public/science communication) I can collectively get much of what I got from Twitter, but this still makes me so much sadder than I realized it would.
@cfiesler @hankgreen what do you think of the suggestion that government agencies and local organisations should set up their own Mastodon servers to continue to provide real time information feeds to those who need it? Services like weather, traffic, etc?
@ptanoo Bear in mind that there are 1A problems with government platforms regulating speech on the basis of content. @cfiesler @hankgreen
If you're into the fediverse and doing content, you might want to take a look at #PeerTube if you haven't already. Most of the problems #Twitter had, YT and Tik-Tok do or will suffer from...aside from the new leadership problem that has emerged at Twitter, which is unique to that platform (for now).
@tilvids @cfiesler @hankgreen Is there anyone in the world who is a professional, paying for rent and grocery bills PeerTuber?
I can't say for sure, but I doubt it, at least not yet. I would argue though that most YT'ers can't do that either, which is why you see so many of them still having jobs, using Patreon, selling merch, taking sponsorships, etc. Which means that the problem isn't that PeerTube lacks ad revenue, it's that it lacks an audience. That's where we need to continuously build a community and draw in both users AND creators.
It's a marathon, not a sprint...
@tilvids Patreon, sponsors, merch, etc are all certainly valid sources of “professional YouTuber” income, and all of them are available streams for someone on PeerTube. I have to imagine sooner or later, someone with an audience is going to find themselves unwelcome on YouTube, or too conflicted to use it.