D&D General Is the Community Moving Away from Twitter? If so, Where?

[LordEntrails]

With all this talk about social media moving away from Twitter, is the RPG/D&D community showing signs of moving? And if so, where are the leaders going?

I'm more interested in the behavior of the trend setters (Critical Role, WotC, Paizo, etc) might be moving than a given individual (at this time).

 

[Morrus]

The companies aren't (as yet) but many users are moving to Mastodon. Couple of relevant threads:

Anyone else in the TTRPG community moving to Mastodon? Share your handle below!

The great #TwitterMIgration has begun! Looking to find others on Mastodon from the D&D and TTRPG community!

www.enworld.org

Chirp.ENworld.org

We've set up a little Twitter clone using Mastodon. It's for TTRPG chatter, it's moderated, and is inclusive and friendly. It's pretty quiet right now! Actually kinda nice! https://chirp.enworld.org/ Needs work but it’s basically functional. We’ll also be looking for a representative moderator...

www.enworld.org

 

[Scribe]

Certainly people are setting up accounts on Mastodon and Hive, whatever that is.

Will be interesting to see who people decide to make themselves the product for next.

 

[jgsugden]

A question to consider here: What are they trying to achieve? I don't mean that in the sense of what are they trying to do to Musk's agenda - I mean what do they want to get out of wherever they go? News? Conversation? Twitter became popular and then absorbed a bunch of uses into it. That doesn't mean it was well designed for all of those purposes. Newer options may be better for particular purposes. So - to that end - what are they trying to do on social media?

 

[Scribe]

What are they trying to achieve?

Largely, it would seem they want to get out of what they see as a toxic environment (funny I did the same about 2.5-3 years ago what took everyone so long...) and get the same kind of functionality but with either less, or their own run, moderation.

Frankly, I wouldnt touch any of them at this point, as I'm sure they will all get repurposed into things that are (ab)used by all the same various groups and just generally be a drain on my will to live.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Staying on twittering, I don't need yet more social media.

 

[Zardnaar]

I think Twitter is hot garbage and it's effects have always been over stated and over rated.

Ignore Twitter and anything that replaces it. Let it die.

 

[darjr]

Eh, I’m out of Twitter

 

[MGibster]

They said I was crazy for sticking with MySpace. Who's crazy now?

 

[Lojaan]

I recommend the Penny Arcade route;

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2022/11/23/twexit#

To summarise;

"I guess I remember that there was an Internet before it was carved into a sequence of predicable, increasingly boring corporate fiefdoms. The purpose of these fiefdoms is to make absolutely sure you can't accomplish something online they can't monetize. If I was going to replace Twitter, you know what I would replace it with? Nothing. It's all unpaid labor. It would be better to replace it with kettle bells."