Best environmental alternative to Twitter

[Charles Chester]

Hi all,

Apologies if this has been asked before…but as a social media Neanderthal, I’m wondering what might be the most important/visible/ethically-unchallenged social media platform for the "environmental community" writ large. 

At least in terms of visibility, I’m assuming it’s Twitter because, well, it’s just been Twitter for everything. Given recent developments, or one might say “regressions,” seems like there’s plenty of justifications to be looking for alternatives…and a quick search came up a large number of alternatives out there….

Happy to take answers direct to me and I'll collate them for the list.

Additional apologies if my question is too similar to: “What’s the best Internet search engine—Google??” 

Justifiable answer: "No, it’s Altavista, you medeival Yahoo….” 

Thanks,

 

Charlie Chester

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[Shannon Kathryn Orr]

I just taught a grad class on social media last week. Here’s a quick summary of my class! I’m sure others will have other thoughts based on their experiences.

 

Twitter – easy to engage the broader public, but also lots of space for trolls. Good for engaging in conversations and debates. And it is easy to share content made by others. Works well with images, text and links.

 

Instagram – skews to a much younger demographic. Instagram is really about original content – sharing of posts is not a thing (although you can with the story feature), and you can’t post clickable links in posts. So it is great for sharing content more intended for passive scrolling. Comments are possible, but in terms of engagement, there is much less compared to other social media.

 

Facebook – very hard now to develop a Facebook page from scratch and get lots of followers unless you already have a known audience. But, Facebook groups are very active and a great way to find people who are interested in similar issues. Very easy to share images, text and links.

 

LinkedIn – easy to write and share posts, the expectation of the site though is professional content. Not a lot of engagement and debate or resharing of posts.

 

Snapchat – younger and much more about person to person communication.

 

Shannon

 

 

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[Gellers, Joshua]

I’m leading a faculty workshop series on promoting research through social media and the only thing I’d add to what Shannon already wrote is that for the very ambitious there is TikTok, which relies mainly on short videos that can be augmented with words and images and is geared towards a youth audience (for what it’s worth #BookTok seems to be an effective way of promoting fiction and non-fiction works). However, given that this format is dynamic, it can also be time-intensive, as you need to produce each video if you’re interested in maximizing its chance of spreading widely. 

There have been ethical questions regarding how China utilizes TikTok (ie surveillance), but if you’re interested in engaging young people, this is the platform to use. I hope this helps!

Josh

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I just taught a grad class on social media last week. Here’s a quick summary of my class! I’m sure others will have other thoughts based on their experiences.

 

Twitter – easy to engage the broader public, but also lots of space for trolls. Good for engaging in conversations and debates. And it is easy to share content made by others. Works well with images, text and links.

 

Instagram – skews to a much younger demographic. Instagram is really about original content – sharing of posts is not a thing (although you can with the story feature), and you can’t post clickable links in posts. So it is great for sharing content more intended for passive scrolling. Comments are possible, but in terms of engagement, there is much less compared to other social media.

 

Facebook – very hard now to develop a Facebook page from scratch and get lots of followers unless you already have a known audience. But, Facebook groups are very active and a great way to find people who are interested in similar issues. Very easy to share images, text and links.

 

LinkedIn – easy to write and share posts, the expectation of the site though is professional content. Not a lot of engagement and debate or resharing of posts.

 

Snapchat – younger and much more about person to person communication.

 

Shannon

 

 

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[Dale W Jamieson]

i'm a little surprised no one mentioned mastodon.  several academic units that i'm part of are creating accounts.  does anyone have thoughts about it?

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[Dana R Fisher]

I'm up at Mastodon and building my followers while also having a more active presence on LinkedIn and Instagram, but it's definitely clunky.

cheers,

Dana

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[Charlotte Epstein]

So am I! That’s clearly the more ethically minded place to go.

Charlotte

 

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[Travis Stills]

Also, any thoughts on:  https://counter.social/ ?

https://twitter.com/hashtag/CounterSocial?src=hashtag_click

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[Charlotte Epstein]

Dear All

 

….and because it took me some time to navigate my way around Mastodon: the most generic ‘server’, ie, the one that comes closest to Twitter, is:

https://mas.to/home

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[Charles Chester]

Hi GEP-eders,

Recent depressing news on the social media front (this being just one example) reminded me that two years ago, I sent out a query to you all regarding social media. You can see the original message below, and the response was prolific—thank you (note that only a portion of responses are in the particular thread below). Up to that point, SM was something I had managed to avoid with my luddite tendencies; after my post and your informative and helpful replies, my reaction was...to hole-up, move straight into denial, and pretend nothing ever happened. I recognize how Jurassic I was being—and still am—but I just find the chaotic relentlessness of SM to be unappealing (the kindest word I could find in the moment). In any case, my apologies for not having collated the information for everyone as is our standard practice.

Now looking back at your responses, overall it seemed as though mastodon was the go-to place for those of us worried about what it meant to become (or remain) a Twit (or now a participant in “Soft Porn,” my favorite nickname for Musk’s X). The catch with mastodon was that getting on board was not a straightforward process. Again, the overwhelming nature of S&M—oops, sorry, I meant SM—pushed me to the default of pretending-it-ain’t-there.

But now that the semester is about to start and I haven’t got my syllabi together, I've needed a good reason to procrastinate. Moreover, given all that’s gone by since I wrote my query and all that’s happening now, I’m again thinking of engaging in social media with BlueSky, which seems to be gaining traction. Still not there...but thinking of it. I imagine some of you are there: can you share your experiences with BlueSky…or other SM platforms of choice?

For whatever it’s worth, I did spend a few minutes putting together some links to SM-relevant websites here. It’s just a first pass from an SM Neanderthal, so if you have anything to add, please let me know. 

Best wishes for a productive spring semester,

Charlie Chester

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On Nov 11, 2022, at 12:07 PM, Charlotte Epstein <charlott...@sydney.edu.au> wrote:

Dear All

 

….and because it took me some time to navigate my way around Mastodon: the most generic ‘server’, ie, the one that comes closest to Twitter, is:

https://mas.to/home

 

Charlotte

 

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So am I! That’s clearly the more ethically minded place to go.

Charlotte

 

Charlotte Epstein

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& Carlsberg Foundation Writing Fellow

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