I have a question, Doug. With you experience across these social media platforms is there one that organizations/municipal services have created accounts. I have wanted to leave X pretty much since Elon Musk purchased it, but I rely on accounts like Cal Fire, the county of San Diego, SD Able, our city council members and other elected officials to keep me up to date on items of interest or alerts I might need. Are all of these groups on Threads now too?
It's hit or miss. Most of the city council and the council itself are on threads; CALFIRE is, Sup Terra Lawson-Remer is, but not much of the county's bureaucracy appears in my searches, which probably aren't complete. I think the problem is having too many choices besides Xitter eats up a lot of time. At this point for my money Threads and maybe someday Bluesky (still in beta) are looking the be good places for agencies to be.
I got rid of the U-T when Manchester and Lynch fired Tim Sullivan and brought in Kevin Acee as his replacement columnist. In my way of thinking, any management group who believes Kevin Acee's writing is an adequate replacement for Tim Sullivan's doesn't know anything about newswriting and probably can't even read. I currently use Tribel and Facebook. Neither are worth my time, but since I'm retired, I have to spend it somewhere.
Although I'm admittedly biased because I've selected it as my social media of choice, I do still hope you'll find a way to be more active on Mastodon. I've been a user for a year and struggled initially with not having an algorithm to bring information to me. Using and following hashtags (like #SanDiego) has definitely helped. But even more important, without that algorithm, users have to follow people they trust, people they know will boost valuable and vetted news. It just feels like, given your knowledge and experience - and a little time - you could fill that trusted role for lots of Mastodon users
I have a question, Doug. With you experience across these social media platforms is there one that organizations/municipal services have created accounts. I have wanted to leave X pretty much since Elon Musk purchased it, but I rely on accounts like Cal Fire, the county of San Diego, SD Able, our city council members and other elected officials to keep me up to date on items of interest or alerts I might need. Are all of these groups on Threads now too?
It's hit or miss. Most of the city council and the council itself are on threads; CALFIRE is, Sup Terra Lawson-Remer is, but not much of the county's bureaucracy appears in my searches, which probably aren't complete. I think the problem is having too many choices besides Xitter eats up a lot of time. At this point for my money Threads and maybe someday Bluesky (still in beta) are looking the be good places for agencies to be.
I got rid of the U-T when Manchester and Lynch fired Tim Sullivan and brought in Kevin Acee as his replacement columnist. In my way of thinking, any management group who believes Kevin Acee's writing is an adequate replacement for Tim Sullivan's doesn't know anything about newswriting and probably can't even read. I currently use Tribel and Facebook. Neither are worth my time, but since I'm retired, I have to spend it somewhere.
Although I'm admittedly biased because I've selected it as my social media of choice, I do still hope you'll find a way to be more active on Mastodon. I've been a user for a year and struggled initially with not having an algorithm to bring information to me. Using and following hashtags (like #SanDiego) has definitely helped. But even more important, without that algorithm, users have to follow people they trust, people they know will boost valuable and vetted news. It just feels like, given your knowledge and experience - and a little time - you could fill that trusted role for lots of Mastodon users