Aral Balkan
@kissane “I make money with my stall at the Nazi market” isn’t the best defense either, through.
Admonishing a community which, on a volunteer basis, has built and maintains a free and open alternative to a corporate space that was funded with over 12 billion dollars of venture capital investment and demanding “do more for me” comes across as somewhat entitled. To paraphrase JFK, “ask not what your community can do for you, ask what you can do for your community.” This place is what we make it.
Erin Kissane
Right now, a lot of fedi advocates are asking authors and artists to leave the social media sites that have allowed them to get by, but without doing much/anything to support those newcomers once they arrive here—even leaving aside the old-guard pushback against “self promotion.”
And idk, “staying on twitter for your work makes you the object of my disgust,” is maybe not the persuasive tool a lot of people here seem to believe it is. 🤷🏻
Erin Kissane
It’s great to see mastodon showing up meaningfully for things like the Texas Observer, but it seems—from my subjective POV—super uneven. Making a really strong case for the best parts of, for example, bookworld/literary twitter to put down stronger roots here is going to take active support and community-building, especially when most journalists are still not active here (and are frequently reviled for being journalists at all).
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