All the legacy blue checks on #Twitter will go away on April 20. J has the insta-verify up and running, but I feel like this would be a good opportunity for some aggressive marketing to get more people over here. I'm also seeing an increasing number of posts from people who went to the Fediverse and are not quite happy with it.
Thoughts?
Folks in light of CoSoTips asking to tell your friends about CoSo.
Best to describe in your own word why you like it here.
If they want a bit more. One place to start is to post these links.
CounterSocial isn’t the ‘new Twitter’: It’s something much better
by M L Clark
@MLClark
https://onlysky.media/mclark/countersocial-isnt-the-new-twitter-its-something-way-better/
And
The Notorious Hacker Who’s Trying to Fix Social Media.
By Lucas Ropek
https://gizmodo.com/jester-hacker-trying-to-fix-social-media-countersocial-1849035091
@corlin @voltronic @MLClark Thanks for sharing!
@voltronic Nope cant figure it out - the only thing i can think of is vanity-
"Ma followers!"
Cmon twitter has been proved to be a cess pool.
Facebook same thing -both are like drugs- so hooked now they are stuck and cant quit.
@voltronic I know what you mean. I think that there's a few different types of #infosec "poster" on social media. Practitioners, partiers, and paranoids. Twitter kinda allowed for all three to live in the same space uncomfortably. Now, they've all gone to their corners.
@kingster
I'm mostly talking about the first type as you would guess.
@voltronic I just have the hardest time finding people on Mastadon to follow who actually post. Many people i follow on Twitter are going to substack and i can only see content if i am a subscriber
I might follow many placeholder accounts but see very few cross posts or posts
I really would love to see more of the #infosec community here. I never really understood why CoSo didn't become a destination for them, given who runs the place. Instead, a lot of them went to infosec.party.
Two of my favorite people in that community have accounts here but have been inactive for a long time.