Dear all,
You may know the concern I have with this topic. Now, that we can see Twitter adding a Dogecoin icon in order to push a fraudulent pyramidal scheme and how the verified accounts won't be relevant anymore if they don't pay is a good moment to do two movements: joining Mastodon and bulding a new communications scheme where diversity, content and the community is in the center. We know that the word for crisis is not opportunity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_word_for_"crisis"), but, indeed, we are seing how the Titanic sinks and we have a good opportunity to move away and start to build good practices.

As always, some volunteers will be here to help in this travel.

Galder
From: Erik Moeller <eloquence@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 7:23 AM
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge
 
The latest announcement from Twitter is that the site is going fully
pay-to-play -- to be in recommendation feeds or even vote in polls,
you will need to be a subscriber. [1] While it remains to be seen
whether the site will follow through, these plans are consistent with
the relentless promotion of a subscription-based model under the
company's current leadership.

While new alternatives are launching every month, Mastodon remains the
primary place folks are migrating to. This Dewey Square report is a
good read on recent developments, including the Mozilla Mastodon
instance, the Medium.com one (which is rapidly closing in on 10K
users), and the Flipboard one.
https://www.deweysquare.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DSG-Snapshot-of-the-Twitter-Migration-March-2023.pdf

Being open source and community-based, Mastodon should be a perfect
fit for Wikimedia, and I still very much hope that Wikimedia
Foundation will set up an official presence in the fediverse, much
like many chapters/affiliates already have.

Warmly,
Erik

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/27/23659351/elon-musk-twitter-for-you-verified-accounts-polls
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