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Kathy Tallering's avatar

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Jennifer Constantine's avatar

Hey Ariella—I’m curious about you boosting Threads. As a Meta platform with a viable alternative (Bluesky), I’m hoping people ditch it entirely. I’ve been calling on my electeds to ditch Twitter already…and Threads too. I understand why we aren’t leaving Instagram (yet), but Threads appears superfluous to me at this point.

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Ariella Elm's avatar

For starters, I won’t leave meta because I’m not going to leave them with an eco chamber. Secondly, I really don’t like Blue Sky. The far left finds me with every post and is incredbily hateful when they do. Blue Sky lacks nuance. The one thing I like better about Blue Sky is the starter packs.

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Jennifer Constantine's avatar

I'm so sorry that is your experience on BlueSky. Why are people like that?? Keep up the great work, so many of us DO appreciate it!

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Jan Schochet's avatar

Just so you know, I did sign up for the DNC call and then heard nothing—NOTHING—at all from them. I was waiting all Monday and Tuesday for an email a text or a link. Nada. (Abd because I just noted it in my G Calendar as Dem Call, I didn’t really know who was doing that call. I signed up a week or more before and I sign up for many political calls, zooms etc). Some people at the DNC need to get it a lot more together.

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Jan Schochet's avatar

Every call I’ve ever signed up for sends an email. I wasn’t online (and I get substack from all the greats and I do Facebook but not Instagram at all or blue sky much —it’s confusing) but my brother is in icu in a major medical center so I was mostly just waiting for an email

about this calm, like all other calls. I think not sending an email is not being great at getting word out. As a certified web copywriter I know that the only online real estate that’s gives solid results and which you can’t get kicked off of is one’s own website and mailing list. I get 10 emails a day still and countless texts (how do candidates in far flung areas from me get my number?) to donate to the Dems. I’m a yellow dog dem and I’m beginning to understand why people who aren’t committed Dems have issues with the DNC. I want to like the new guy who’s chair. I like Jeffries a lot. But there’s little in the way of cohesive messsging. Just saying. People are busy outside of social media. They need (!) an email sent directly into their inbox.

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Ariella Elm's avatar

It was all over social media. They also did a live on IG of it, and it was on YouTube. I posted it throughout the day, so did the Dems and so did Reecie Colbert. But if no other influencer acknowledges it there’s not much to do with a bad algorithm.

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Jan Schochet's avatar

And yes, I am having a bad day.

And yes, I really do appreciate your 2 posts every night. Thank you.

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Emily Elliot's avatar

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Lynn Preis's avatar

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Crystal's avatar

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Allie Twig's avatar

📵📵📵! I really appreciate these roundups, they help me refocus every night and get a good-ish night’s sleep so I can get up to try again tomorrow. This is really fuckin important. Thank you!!

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May May's avatar

Me too!! Go Ariella! And, thank you!

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