Paul Welty, PhD AI, WORK, AND STAYING HUMAN

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Explore how pro-democracy users are migrating from Twitter and whether Mastodon can evolve into a central hub for discussion and connection.

It seems like #Twitter pro-democracy users are not just fleeing but being driven away, in order to de-platform and fragment this group. Is there a way #mastodon could ever become the same sort of “central” meeting/finding/discussing place?

On the surface, this seems difficult because of certain Mastodon design/features, most important the lack of algorithmic discovery.

Would it be possible to “train” new users to use hashtags and hashtag-based search until their follow-bases were established?

https://mastodon.world/@aristotle/109407501072320718


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