@BernieOrVest Hi again, taking from where we left last. I was just thinking, maybe a better strategy would be to influence Bernie friendly media like TYT or someone to highlight the issues that you mention and themselves migrate. I understand that that would be hard because they too are living off followers and clicks.
It doesn't make sense for media to leave Twitter but it has been obvious for years that all media outlets should work to create a social media network outside of the stranglehold of these monopolies, even just for their own selfish capitalist interests. They should be desperate for a neutral platform. And along comes the #fediverse and they ignore it. They're dumber than we thought.
@wjmaggos @goofysufi @BernieOrVest@mastodon.social To be honest, they just don't see the $ in it. People are hesitant to leave platforms behind unless something better comes along. Now Mastodon we could argue is better in some ways, but the UX is clearly behind a centralized design.
It should be about the money they are losing. It's probably also a collective action problem. The media companies could team up to make their own #ActivityPub compliant alternatives to Twitter, Facebook, YouTube etc instead of accepting the decisions from big tech. It's like big media waiting around while Netflix was growing, somehow not seeing they'd eventually make their own content.
