Twitter Exodus

[ysabetwordsmith]

Twitter faces a mass exodus.

For people on any other service, this is an opportunity to scoop new users. Listen to why people are leaving Twitter. Does your favorite service meet any of those needs? If so, encourage people to move there instead. Gathering more of your friends together will make any service more fun to use.

For example, many people are complaining about hate speech and poor privacy tools that don't let them block it. Dreamwidth offers private blogs, themed communities, and pretty robust moderation tools that let you delete comments you don't want on your blog or block people so they can't bother you. Want a hate-free online space? It's not that hard to make one. Want to make tweet-sized blog posts? Some people do that here, especially with certain formats like "3 Things Make a Post" in various blogs or "Just One Thing" on awesomeers. Looking for communities on your favorite topics? Check out followfriday for suggestions. You can also use the search box in your blog header for interests.

Some resources that you can share or reblog for new users to find:

* getting_started

* Dev Getting Started (for the code)

* dreamwidth 101: the (sort of) fast version

* Finding people on Dreamwidth

* Getting Started on DW (from LiveJournal)

* how to dreamwidth: a primer

* Making Friends on Dreamwidth

* So you're into BNHA and just created a Dreamwidth account

* A Tumblr User's Guide to Dreamwidth


I have not seen a DW guide for Twitter users, so if you know of one, please share the URL so I can link to it. Other guides are welcome too.

EDIT 11/30/22 -- I have continued editing the version of this post on my own blog.  There is also now a community for twitter_refugees.