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@atomicpoet
As someone who does a lot of #Genealogy , I am part of several #FacebookGroups that specialize in various aspects of the subject. I've found some great Genealogy accounts etc here, but my interactions and subject information on #Facebook is far more than I can find here.

Realistically: Each platform appeals to specific groups and interests. I don't know that the architecture of #Mastodon could be as effective as the interest-specific groups on Facebook. But I also see Mastodon as being more appealing for other topics and interests, and its architecture having some very distinct advantages.

You also have the fact that both #Twitter and #Meta offer a comfortable interface to far more #news and #CurrentEvents than is available here on Mastodon.

One large aspect of this issue, is that Mastodon needs to widen the options of #NewsArticles available here, in order to seriously compete with either other platform.

Together with Katariina Mäkinen we went through #newsarticles from Finnish #mainstreammedia that considered #familypolicy and had #migrants mentioned in them. We found out, that during the 20 years time span we looked at, #MigrantMother was always a #worrisome subject and #migrantfather was absent. If you are interested the article is OA and can be found here: https://journal-njmr.org/articles/10.33134/njmr.492/