The journalists went to Bluesky, the politicians and orgs went to Threads, and when bridges are fully implemented, Mastodon will be the best place to have it all.
Everyone goes after Marie Antoinette for saying "let them eat cake" but they leave out the part that came before, which was a crowd angrily chanting "let us eat cake!"
Playing with Streamlabs … not free, but looks like it will let us multi-stream to Instagram, Twitch, and (ugh) X for our next action, and Twitch has fixed urls/ native-ish embeds in Bluesky, so that should work better for Bluesky and Mastodon.
Would like to do #Owncast or #Peertube as well, but the #Streamlabs iPhone app seems to have only one slot for a custom RTMP server and Instagram takes that up.
@knizer Sorry, missed this! So, this post was inspired by, on one side, a problem I see of unmet demand, and on the other, intriguing new projects, and a kind of tantalizingly narrow gap between them.
To get more specific, right now I'm laser focused on how to get the activist left less attached to X. It's one thing to try to narrow the gap on stuff people still use as excuses to stay there - breadth and speed of information, mostly. (1/7)
With the @ifnotnowboston account here, I'm thinking I'd like to lean in to what the fedi is good at, and use it more for community and conversation, than breaking news and broadcast. Like, more discussion prompts I guess. Are there some good examples of accounts doing that successfully?
There was very little discussion of it here, although @AdrianRiskin posted the link to the video and @elsantonegro shared KTVU's article on it.
There's some discussion on Bluesky, almost all of it from white people.
But Xitter's where the action is, with statements from CAIR, NLG, perspectives from multiple lawyer. Muslim women see it differently than tenured white law profs, who could have predicted? Of course there's plenty of Islamophobia and anti-Semitism in the replies on Xitter, also very predictable. But since almost none of the press coverage covered the protestors goals and perspectives in any detail, focusing only on the narrow question of whether the First Amendment protects political speech at a semi-official event at a private residence, without looking on Twitter it's a once-sided debate -- and Xitter's still by far the best option of the three for getting Muslim perspectives on this.
And to @jdp23 's point I only saw a protest at Pomona College where students were getting arrested bc I happened to hop onto on Xwitter. I think @AdrianRiskin later posted a news story.
Bluesky was short term disastrous for the potential of Mastodon as a Twitter alternative but in the end it might have been necessary. This place wasn't ready, and journalists and left activists were much better able to form a functional ecosystem there. When we can share content from there back here it's gonna be so good.
I could see Bluesky becoming the blue check space of the fediverse. A stage where more prominent people can have their public conversations. That's an important function. But here is where us hoi polloi can talk with each other. Having both is where the magic happens.
While I work on figuring out the technical aspects - I still don't know what to call this… any ideas for what to call a federated Boston events calendar? I like puns, and the vision I have is a community bulletin board. (The old school, analog kind.) https://mastodon.social/@misc/112167865930598497