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With media and celebs now promoting their twitter alternatives, is it worth trying to entice them over to mastodon/lemmy? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

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

Hypothetically speaking, if a famous person did run around Lemmy under their real name and openly promoting their work here, who is going to believe them? 🙂

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Peter Mayhew was on there for a long, long time. Warwick Davies too. Rick Astley had been lured there in the past for AMAs iirc...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I dunno what their accounts are, if they're still active, but Wil Wheaton was early. Lessee...what's his account age?

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redditor for 18 years

And how about Reddit?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit

Founded: June 23, 2005; 18 years ago

Yeah, this is what Reddit looked like at the end of 2005:

https://web.archive.org/web/20051231232715/http://reddit.com/

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

The more on Lemmy the better, across the board. But convincing them to actually do so seems unlikely unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Way ahead of you on that.

There is always risks in going to a new social platform, but also the reward for being an early adopter is also great if the platform gets big, and I'd say the Barbie promotion here last year overall went pretty well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

No thanks, the second Lemmy starts to fill up with self-centred wankers and ads, I'm out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No. Who fucking cares.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Username checks out.