But Twitter is not everything and here we advocate for the Open Educators who are active in Mastodon, the federated social media network(“Social networking that’s not for sale. Your home feed should be filled with what matters to you most, not what a corporation thinks you should see. Radically different social media, back in the hands of the people.”)
Part of the reason we haven’t been very busy on Mastadon is because there doesn’t seem to be any social media scheduler that has figured out how to post to a Fediverse account at the same time as the other socials … when that is figured out, @cogdog I can guarantee there will be more activity - at least from our side.
I know you have been busy with posts and boosts @cogdog! I really meant that our profile on Mastodon didn’t get the alerts and campaign noise that we did for #oeweek because it wasn’t an option on our current scheduling software. If we had to separately schedule all of the 160+ posts we did for the other networks individually just on Mastadon, we would never leave our computers!
But I think that is also okay - that Mastodon doesn’t get flooded by alerts and is more concentrated on the quality of interaction and engagement than other platforms.
Thanks for the link and ideas (I know how to schedule a post but not block schedule posts).
I had looked into Buffer (it didn’t load the 4 times I tried it to get our profile on the platform). I will look into dlvr … one of 25 to dive deep into.
The culture of Mastodon is still emerging, so I think it’s wise not to overly use like those 160 messages. I am optimistic again more integrations are going to be added to platforms (WordPress is rolling it into the JetPack social tools for adding share buttons and announcing posts)
