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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.

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It’s No Fun, Watching The EV Social Media Scene Fragment (cleantechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I work with thousands of EV fans on both sides of the political divide there, and I’ve lost hundreds of followers. Using tools to track unfollows, I’ve found that most of the people deleted their accounts. Thousands more simply stopped posting or interacting in any way, leaving without deleting or announcing their departure (X/Twitter isn’t an airport). But enough people have told us where they’re going to know that BlueSky and Threads are the most common destinations.

That is a massive drop in engagement, it will be interesting to see Twitter’s monthly active user count after the dust settles.

What I’m seeing happen now is Democrat-leaning and centrist EV enthusiasts moving off to BlueSky, Threads, and to a smaller extent, the Fediverse (Mastodon, Diaspora, Hubzilla, and various other CMS platforms via plugins). Right-leaning people are either staying on Facebook (which has become a home for elderly illiterates) or X/Twitter.

Mastodon got mentioned wooo!