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I have to admit I'm struggling because when folks leave Twitter, they're going to many different places. Disability Twitter, Science Twitter...these communities are fracturing.

And I don't have a good in-person support network to pick up the slack, esp during pandemic.
01:05 AM - May 16, 2023
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Mastodon has a lot of good points, but since Eugen was convinced the QTs and virality of things were enabling bad behavior rather than just being tools that could be used either way, Mastodon was created to lack those tools.
01:06 AM - May 16, 2023
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And it does appear to be those tools and even an algorithm (although not, I'd argue, Twitter's choice of algorithm) that helped marginalized people amplify their voices. So the lack of them is palpable.
01:07 AM - May 16, 2023
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I've got accounts on here, Cohost, Project Mushroom, and Mastodon. I don't do Meta-owned properties after having extricated myself from FB. Grad school has been keeping me too busy to spend equal time learning each community.
01:08 AM - May 16, 2023
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