Notices by Brianna Wu (briannawu@mstdn.social)

Sending my good pal Elon Musk my best. Twitter traffic is “plummeting” as people are leaving for Threads.

Tough break, buddy! Must suck to spend $44 billion right before the Titanic sinks. ❤️

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/07/10/twitter-traffic-is-nosediving-as-metas-threads-hits-100-million-users.html

What no one tells you about marriage is the longer you’re together, the more your entire life devolves into an impenetrable set of references and in-jokes no other human can make sense of, much less appreciate.

Twitter is so broken right now that despite having 150,000 followers- a technical question about a mirrorless Canon camera got me a few likes and no responses.

On Mastadon, I have 1/10th of that and got dozens of helpful replies from people with firsthand experience.

This will upset some, but it needs to be said.

People keep asking when the right will wake up and denounce their worst reactionaries.

It’s not same scale, but progressives have a similar challenge. When will we stop letting our most reactive, anonymous people define us?

I’m a progressive. So much so, I ran for congress on universal health care, working class economics, addressing structural racism, and legalized marijuana and sex work.

The difference isn’t in our ideals, it’s in our behavior

2/ I do not know a single person doing actual work on the left that it's at their wits end about the crazies.

I do not know a single person doing actual work on the left that doesn't have some degree of trauma from abuse by our own side.

Here’s the truth. Your behavior has destroyed the mainstream perception of progressives. We’re not seen as champions of the working class.

We’re seen as a bunch of self-righteous assholes. You are in the business of dividing us over the most petty nonsense

3/ Every single person on the left I know with actual power I know is tired of your bullshit. I’m inviting you to grow up.

There is not going to be a moment where you scream and people on the right and center have an epiphany and realize you are right and they are wrong.

If you are serious about change, you have to work for it. The same way every other successful progressive movement in history has worked for it.

4/ You say you want a glorious revolution, but it's the normie Democrats showing up to canvas and phonebank. It's why they win.

Another thing. We need to learn to let things go. Every difference in perspective is not a crisis. We amplify every minor disagreement like it’s a moral failing.

Politics is about addition, not subtraction. We have to work with people who see the world differently.

5/ My hands are not clean on this. I've certainly done my share of reactionary, non-constructive bullshit on Twitter.

But, I also think that gives me credibility to publicly say, "This is not working. We have to do something different."

And here’s why I’m speaking up now.

I think you are vulnerable.

I flat out do not believe the metrics in this story. Will be covering this on Rocket with @film_girl today.

I think it’s fairly clear that compared to Twitter, Mastadon is the more vibrant platform.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-mastodon-bump-is-now-a-slump/