Anonup is raising interesting issues about social media for me. It appears to be remarkable well "weeded" of trolls and bots. The audience is high level, loving, and erudite. There's none of the anger of Gab or idiocy of Twatter.
I post some things to Gab because I don't feel they do much for people here (e.g. article links with a pull quote). Some stuff like my photos it would be nice to have a mechanism to push to both. Anonup is like your peers and bosses are watching, so you had better put out quality stuff.
The one downside I see of a niche social media platform is you don't so easily get to promote people and content from obscurity as a "big name". Once I had 100k+ followers on Twatter I could magically direct attention to videos etc. For someone who had sung a special song, say, and put it on YouTube those thousand views would make their day and week.
Sometimes quality and quantity are in tension; other times not. One public square, or many?
Sometimes when we are in danger but don't see it, we may not understand the instruction to move at that time. It becomes apparent later on.
Several years ago, I was surrounded by many dangerous people in numerous groups on FB. I reached out to some of the agents who worked my original case of identity theft back in 2003-2005.
A huge ring of criminal activity was very well alive and active. Somehow I stepped into the center of that hornet's nest. Many threats and attempts on my life were made. With the help of many people, I was able to get 100's of thousands of FB accounts taken down. So many bot accounts too. Many coming out of the Middle East. There were many FB groups trafficking children that were also removed.
Sometimes people are too trusting with the wrong people online. Yet it's in our nature to want to trust and help others.
So I look at social media as a way to help protect and help others. by preventing those people from harming others.
