There are lots of people on there I would like to follow, but they wont be joining the fediverse and I don't want to make a Threads account myself either.

[–] kzhe@lemmy.zip 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Me. Are there any small instances that won't defed?

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

get the block

[–] kzhe@lemmy.zip 9 points 10 months ago

...OK then? I don't see any incentive to block me because I don't think EEE can happen?

[–] tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Lots of illustrators and writers have Threads and Instagram because it's where the money is. They rely on that kind of exposure to sell and show their work. Following from Mastodon without a Threads account would be awesome.

Not to mention that many Mastodon users are ridiculously "purists" saying that no ad or sell should be on the network, ever, and are actively hostile to the small guys trying to make a living here. I agreed that big corps can fuck off because they overdo ads, but the small guy selling his weird contraptions or custom phone cases should see Mastodon as an alternative. But the truth is that they won't.

[–] rabiddolphin@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

People are delusional. Most books sell less than 5000 copies their entire lifetime. Most illustrators are LARPing freelancers who get paid in exposure.

[–] tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Source?

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If it helps kill twitter?

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 27 points 10 months ago

Meet the new Twitter, same as the old Twitter.