Doesn’t really matter if it’s officially beehaw or not, fan accounts exist. Afaik fan accounts exist on twitter for hexbear:

https://twitter.com/Hexbear_io

https://twitter.com/chapo_chat

Similar to elon, posts on twitter dont have to be about any topic in particular. Eventually an enemy of the bees will make a fake official looking beehaw acct to make the bees look bad.

I would do it, but i don’t toot or tweet enough. But i will subscribe to you if you make an acct. Could even do it as a join acct to enable enough daily action

There is a beehaw redddit account: https://www.reddit.com/user/beehaw-lemmy

there are also (official?) wolfballs and lemmygrad promotional reddit accounts.

  • @heady@beehaw.org
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    61 year ago

    The structure of twitter means it would take a lot of work to build any kind of following and even then have low conversion to beehaw users. A placeholder or low effort account would be merely whispering into the void. All of that effort would be better spent posting on beehaw and making it a more inviting place. In my mind I think there is no promotional value in jumping on that sinking ship.

    • Butterbee (She/Her)
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      61 year ago

      This is so true. Even if you DO manage to get a large following on Twitter you only reach a fraction of your followers. That’s been seen since they introduced the views metric on tweets. Fully agree that just having more content here is probably the best thing to do.

      I joined Mastodon after Elon’s antics and I probably wouldn’t have stayed if there wasn’t a vibrant community. Content is king in social media.