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!
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:
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? 🙂
The more on Lemmy the better, across the board. But convincing them to actually do so seems unlikely unfortunately.
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.
No thanks, the second Lemmy starts to fill up with self-centred wankers and ads, I’m out.
No. Who fucking cares.
Lemmy mastodon don’t have advertisers to pay for exposure.
Lemmy is over obsessively political and left leaning. Too many different people pushing political agendas, with silly rules, emotionally unhinged moderators and admins.
Normal sane people don’t have time for that shit.
Lemmy will remain small, mostly toxic userbase and mod and admin teams pushing political propaganda
Lemmy is over obsessively political and left leaning.
Eh, I don’t think that that’ll persist if it keeps growing. Like, when Reddit started out, it was mostly people interested in CS and startups. Kinda more like the Slashdot crowd (which, incidentally, was where I came from when I went to Reddit). It was not representative of the larger population. Then as people kept coming in, they built up their own communities.
