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I don't think Twitter will collapse... $44B vaporated?
I would just stay there, it's still fine no? I believe it will even improve :)
Like I said on Twitter, it's fine until it's not. Just looking to have some sort of contingency plan in place in the case that it either collapses or changes for the worse.
I don't think it will collapse either Scott Spendolini... but if I had to switch I'd go with LinkedIn, as you mentioned it's more professional and there are already many people using it (yes, it can be very busy 😶)... I don't think I'd go with IG or Tiktok, I don't find them so friendly for the tech community...
I saw Dimitri's post on SQL Assertions today and it piqued my curiosity. Putting more business rules closer to data is almost always a great idea, as you can now call DML from any technology and rest
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Last week, Doug Gault tweeted this:
There was a bit of spirited discussion that followed, but no real direction or solution. Sure, a bunch of us have jumped over to Mastodon (I'm @sspendol@mastodon.cloud and sites like LinkedIn and Reddit were proposed as alternatives to Twitter.
But are any of those the right answer?
It's impossible to pick up all our my followers and demand that they move with us anywhere. Thus, the reach that we have on a different platform will be much less than we do on Twitter. Personally, I've been using Twitter since 2009 or so; that's a lot of time put into a platform and not easily transferrable.
I do feel that it is prudent to have some sort of backup plan ready so that the APEX community can still stay connected. A lot of people have put in a lot of work to forge and foster this community, and no one wants to see it fall apart. Better to be prepared for a disaster and not have to execute a contingency than the alternative.
So I echo Doug's question: in the case of a Twitter meltdown, where can we as a community go?
LinkedIn seems too busy, but is likely the best short-term solution since many people are also on there. It also has a more professional feel to it that many of the other alternatives.
Reddit is, well, Reddit. While it has some very lively communities, there's a lot of, well, "other things" on there that may trigger corporate firewalls if visited too frequently.
A lot of people don't use Facebook at all, so that's likely not the best place, either.
Mastodon is still too new, obscure and a little too quiet. It does have a lot of potential to replace Twitter since it mimics the timeline and limited length content format. Perhaps it only becomes truly viable if and when Twitter collapses, since there's already a small community of APEX developers already there.
I don't have the energy for TikTok. Sorry, Michele. :)
I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments.
