about that whole twitter situation...

[ratcreature]

Are there any new up-and-coming places where one ought to namesquat just in case? I do have a Pillowfort account (and if anyone wants an invite, I think I can generate three or so?), and I have heard of Mastodon, though I'm not entirely sure how joining that works. From what I understand you have to pick a server instance based on the reputation and TOS of that specific server? Are there new places? I'm not up to joining TikTok (not that it is new at this point)...

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[melannen]

I am not super clear on Mastodon either, but I believe each server keeps its own set of usernames, so I'm not sure there's a point namesquatting there. You would be ratcreature@serverofchoice.yay and there might be another ratcreature at another server. It might be worth trying to get an account on a specific server where all the cool kids are, but they're starting to have issues with the people who run the larger servers getting tired and quitting and shutting them down (which is the obvious fail point of that model) so I'm not sure it's even worth trying to get a foothold on a specific server.

Discord seems to be the main place at the moment tbh, but I don't think it requires unique usernames, so there's no point in squatting.

If I'm trying to predict the future, possibly Twitch? Non-gaming fandom stuff seems to be slowly creeping in there as gamers-who-are-also-fans use it for other stuff, and there's a lot of active people and a thriving visual art community. I think you do have to namesquat on twitch, but I haven't quite gotten as far as signing up yet. Also if you aren't interested in streaming there's really no point.

Tumblr is having a mini-revival helped by them removing the tits ban simultaneously with the twitter exodus, but I'm sure you've already got that one.

[ane]

I've been using counter.social. They've had like 20,000 new subscribers in the last few days so it's very slow at the moment until things get upgraded. I've mostly been posting cat pics, so don't really know if there's much fandom related things. I'm not obsessed with a particular fandom recently so I haven't really looked, although I do see the occasional post. There's apparently groups as part of the paid features $5/month, but I haven't gotten around to upgrading to find out. I probably will at some point soon.