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?
I view AU as “preachin’ to the choir”. More patriots than trolls for sure! We can see relavent breaking news here without weeding through the trolls and arguments of the other social media platforms (although I have blocked a few people that would not allow me to question their posts here). For the most part, it’s like a breath of fresh air. We go to the other platforms and get frustrated or brain-overload and come back here to be with people that are more like family. Everyone here seems mature enough to keep scrolling past any bat crap crazy stuff. 🤣 I do wish I could get on TS though. 😢
