Iirc he was not happy with the fediverse experience for someone with a large following, which is really too bad. He tried for a long time but got tired of the abuse.
I really don’t think the fediverse can really work for celebrity microblogging. Corpo platforms inherently value reach and boosting popular users, while the fediverse has no profit incentive to appeal to them. It’s why I always liked the idea of lemmy over mastadon: conversations matter more than personalities
Is Alec on the fediverse? Feels like something he would be in to
He’s on Mastodon (@TechConnectify@mas.to) but he mostly talks on bsky nowadays.
Iirc he was not happy with the fediverse experience for someone with a large following, which is really too bad. He tried for a long time but got tired of the abuse.
How’d he get abused?
Online abuse can refer to nasty comments. Here is a thread about it: https://pawb.social/post/17092569
Pulling out another one: https://mas.to/@TechConnectify/113056731556590285
I really don’t think the fediverse can really work for celebrity microblogging. Corpo platforms inherently value reach and boosting popular users, while the fediverse has no profit incentive to appeal to them. It’s why I always liked the idea of lemmy over mastadon: conversations matter more than personalities
He didn’t have problems with reach he had problems with abuse, if memory serves. Some other big accounts say similar things.
I also don’t think the fediverse works for someone trying to “go viral” or farm engagement or whatever.