mastodon.gamedev.place is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Mastodon server focused on game development and related topics.

Server stats:

5.1K
active users

#twitter

83 posts51 participants0 posts today
Continued thread

3/

Another factor (for him) seems to be —

He perceived Twitter as being prone to censorship. Including politically motivated censorship. Censorship of individual posts, and even by suspending Twitter account.

And thus risky to build an audience on Twitter — since your digital identity could be taken away from you at any time (by Twitter)

He felt that Substack was not only much more tolerant, but had a policy of being anti-censorship.

1/

I have an old friend who, when he left Twitter, went over to Substack.

He has an academic background. And, by profession is a ghost writer. He has also written a number of his own books.

If you are interested in growing and spreading the Fediverse, then —

Why did he choose Substack over other alternatives?