Mirroring selected authors (and hopefully supporting voting/searching/reply etc) seems to be very different from suggesting to migrate.
I didn’t get that from when you asked: “Why is a significant amount of content by some rationality adjacent people only posted on X/Twitter?”
Which to me seems like you’re asking why those authors aren’t duplicating their content on multiple platforms. Which to me overwhelmingly overlaps with the question of why they don’t migrate because it still involves changing their browsing habits, or at the very least the time and energy of choosing a new platform, setting up an account, and then of course—ensuring cross-posting/resharing. Is that incorrect?
As you highlight, asking everyone to set up their own cross-posting solution is probably not viable. But if there was some service run by the LW team that had a simple guide for setting it up (e.g. go to your LW account, get your Twitter API key, copy it here, grant permission, done.) and it took ~5 minutes, that would lower the barrier to entry a lot and would be a huge step forward.
I didn’t get that from when you asked: “Why is a significant amount of content by some rationality adjacent people only posted on X/Twitter?”
Which to me seems like you’re asking why those authors aren’t duplicating their content on multiple platforms. Which to me overwhelmingly overlaps with the question of why they don’t migrate because it still involves changing their browsing habits, or at the very least the time and energy of choosing a new platform, setting up an account, and then of course—ensuring cross-posting/resharing. Is that incorrect?
No? Curating means that LW moderators would curate and pull the feeds instead of the authors needing to take initiative.
Ah okay, I had the wrong assumptions about who would be doing what
As you highlight, asking everyone to set up their own cross-posting solution is probably not viable. But if there was some service run by the LW team that had a simple guide for setting it up (e.g. go to your LW account, get your Twitter API key, copy it here, grant permission, done.) and it took ~5 minutes, that would lower the barrier to entry a lot and would be a huge step forward.