11-11-2022, 12:39 PM
I am liking Mastodon so far, given that many of the people I follow on Twitter are migrating there, though some have gone to CounterSocial. Waterloo Region Connected is great because it focuses exclusively on Waterloo Region. The downside is that most of the people in the Region who might be interested in regional and city issues are not here. They are on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, etc. This is the problem with social media. If you decide that Facebook or Twitter is bad for whatever reason and switch to the hot new one, you can't convince all of your friends, family and people you follow to switch along with you, so instead of quitting one network for another, you end up just adding to the number of networks that you follow. That happened with Google+. I thought that it was better than Facebook, but hardly anybody switched, and it eventually died. A public forum where everybody gets together to discuss the issues of the day is a good thing, but there doesn't seem to be a way to get everybody to agree on which forum that should be.