Unfortunately, Twitter has a huge critical mass of users and functions as a
(publicly traded) public utility. News programs read tweets live on TV.
Politicians post statements via tweets too. Earthquake reports come out
first via Twitter before official alerts come out - also on Twitter.

As for Mastodon,
https://twitter.com/gravecat/status/1518598015396818944

On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 11:19 AM Thomas Lord <lord@basiscraft.com> wrote:

>
> Why is this hard?
>
> A lot of serious people are now looking for an exit from twitter.
>
> The ones I see are asking about Mastadon.
>
> The FSF front page is a bunch of dust stuff about libreplanet,
> and they evince no concerted, organized activity to stand up
> instances and education materials -- to move people to Mastadon.
>
> Why else do they exist?  It is not enough to "have a position"
> on twitter.  Get to the barricades.
>
> I have long been troubled that FSF has devolved to the kind of
> NPO that exists mainly to provide jobs for the people who
> operate it, and not to serve a useful social function.
>
> Here we have today a clear circumstance in which they can
> prove me wrong.
>
> -t
>
>
> On 2022-04-26 10:50, Kaio Duarte Costa wrote:
> > Em 2022-04-26 14:37, Thomas Lord escreveu:
> >> If the FSF is not now going very hard on promoting Mastadon,
> >> they should never be trusted to anything right again.
> >>
> >> :-)
> >>
> >> -t
> >>
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> >
> > Hey Thomas,
> >
> > I didn't quite understand your message, where is the FSF failing in
> > promoting Mastodon? By using Twitter which has now been bought by Elon
> > Musk?
> >
> > If this is the case, I recommend you see the page “Is the FSF on
> > Twitter?” (https://www.fsf.org/twitter)
> >
> > Please clarify the points that you consider FSF's low effort in
> > relation
> > to Mastodon, to make it easier to understand!
> >
> > Sincerely,
>
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