My Take

Mastodon is not Twitter. There I said it. It never was in my opinion. It's definitely Twitter-like, but with the federation of different instances (or if it helps topic servers) it's honestly better than Twitter. It still has it's challenges with moderation, but not nearly as complex as Elon Musk is dealing with over at Twitter.

I have a good friend that met on Twitter a while back. I got him to finally move to a Mastodon instance. He's struggling because he's trying to treat it exactly like the Twitter. There is no algorithm suggesting accounts or topics to you on Mastodon. And you know what? That's a beautiful thing. Just start following interesting people you find on your instance or in the "Federated" timeline.

I've had some fantastic conversations with people I know and others that I just met on Mastodon and it's been great. Now this isn't saying that there aren't bad people on Mastodon, but as a user you can block whole servers which house these jerks on your own.

Who knows what's going to happen with Twitter. But what I do know, Mastodon is here to stay.

If you're on Mastodon come connect with me https://socl.bz/seth.

Web Finds

• Twitter Culls Around 50% of its Staff as Part of Elon Musk’s Reformation Plan
  It was bound to happen. Be as it may, getting fired sucks. But staying on to work for Elon is probably worse.
• 32 Predictions for Social Media Marketing in 2023
  Yes, I know it's a list of predictions. But I find this one pretty informative.
• Musk Outlines New $8 Per Month Twitter Blue Package, Including Verification Ticks For All
  It kind of defeats the purpose of the verification checkmark. Also it shows that Elon is feeling the pinch to have Twitter make money sans the advertisers who are leaving in droves.
• The Complete Elon Musk Saga Rundown
  If you've been living under a rock or not very involved with Twitter, here's a good rundown of what went down over at Twitter.
• Is Google headed towards a continuous “real-time” algorithm?
  Instead of long rollouts, an ongoing and everchanging algorithm might be interesting and even terrifying to my website owners.
• 5 SEO best practices for Black Friday and the holiday season
  Hard to believe but Black Friday is coming up. It's more of a season now than a particular day. But still retailers online and off need to get a hold of SEO so they can rake in the cash to get in the black.
• Meta Opens Up Facebook’s ‘Professional Mode’ to All Creators Globally
  Zuck and the team at Meta are always up to something. This could be a cool set of tools for creators who use the Meta platforms. It could also be the Meta team trying to say relevant.
• Google: Links Will Be Less Important As A Ranking Factor In The Future
  I've already seen on my sites that good quality content, written by a human for humans ranks really well, with or without external links pointing to it right away.
• A Resource For Figuring Out The Fediverse
  A resource I've put together to help everyone out.
• The WordPress Ecosystem Needs Closer Scrutiny - The WP Minute
  I totally agree with Eric on this. WordPress is a great community, but it has its collective issues.

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