I’ve seen many tv shows (eg debate shows and news programs) start to promote threads, instagram and bluesky… and no longer mentioning twitter. I never see any mention of Mastodon or Lemmy. Or anything similar.

Should we be trying to push these to these people? Or are we better without them there (case in example is the misinformation pushed by shows like the Jeremy Vine Show, GB News and generally the rightwing tabloids)??

What do you see as the benefits, and what do you see as the disadvantages?

Cheers people!

  • talEnglish
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    5 months ago

    For celebrities, I don’t think it makes a lot of sense. Celebrities do appearances on social media to promote themselves. What they’re going to care about is reach. If there are lots of people on a social media platform, it makes sense to do a promo event there. Neither Mastodon nor the Threadiverse is all that big right now.

    I mean, there probably are celebs out there, but under pseudonyms.

    On Reddit, the only celebrity I remember running around openly for a long time when Reddit was small (and just hanging out, not doing promotional stuff), was Wil Wheaton.

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    Heh, looks like he’s still there:

    https://reddit.com/u/wil