• Veedem@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I know the Fediverse loves a good “Twitter is going down” circle jerk, but at some point, we need to move on. Lemmy and Mastodon are great for me and we should be evangelizing and sharing content with others from these platforms.

    This dope and the orange dope just do and say outrageous things so they stay top of mind. Don’t give them that and you take away their super power.

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      The problem though is that your comment/mindset, and of those like you, who just want to ignore Twitter and just do our own thing here, ignores the point of the social gathering critical mass situation.

      People talk about Twitter because they’re trying to gain intel from others about if they’re moving over or staying, so they can decide if they should stay or move over as well. They’re trying to determine the location of where everyone will gather at.

      And yes, at this point you’re going to say “oh they should move over anyway and we will just grow our content here”. Unfortunately that’s not how human minds work, we’re social creatures, and we like to gather in singular large locations when we want to interact with each other socially.

      There’s a battle being fought right now, the battle for where the social critical gathering point is located/hosted at.

      To ignore that battle, is to lose that battle.

    • banneryear1868@lemmy.world
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      I think it’s overlooked how many people just by default have Twitter on their phone and open it while on the toilet or waiting in line etc. It will essentially fill that need for them outside of anything Musk does short of rendering the service unavailable. Reddit used to be the big one for people who were a bit more tech savvy, even Twitter in it’s inception was full of tech journalists, I think that’s the status they’ve lost over the years. If you’re connected to tech scene in some way Fed is fertile ground.

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        It will essentially fill that need for them outside of anything Musk does short of rendering the service unavailable.

        That honestly wouldn’t surprise me at this point. I can’t imagine advertisers are very happy about his terrible leadership. If he makes a few more blunders I think things could go south pretty fast. Especially with threads being a potential alternative that has a lower barrier to entry than something like mastodon, it would be a smoother transition than it would be otherwise.

        Maybe its just wishful thinking, but I do think the death of twitter is a possibility.

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      1 year ago

      if only Mastodon would get off their high-horse and address usability issues, like the lack of a like button. Lemmy has it figured out much better by having an “all” tab populated by all the subs users have subbed to.

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          1 year ago

          But it’s not a like button. It’s a favorite button. Semantics matter to people switching services. Federation is a hard enough concept without adding cognitive load.

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            I’ve never been on mastadon, is there actually a difference in functionality? or is it just that they call it “favorite” ? (presumably since Twitter’s
            “like” used to be called “favorite” and I’m still a bit mad they changed it to be more Facebook-sounding)

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      1 year ago

      It’s the same on Threads. Half the posts are about Twitter and it’s exhausting.