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Look at the twitter. Whatever they can do people stay there. Maybe the hardcore users or geeks will leave, but the crowd will stay.
Nah Twitter is a shell of its former self. Try searching up a niche subject and 99% of the tweets are ads.
Yeah, the entire niche industry community I was on twitter for absolutely ate it during the early days of Elon and the majority have moved on - mainly to social media spaces like Insta or TikTok.
We got some of them on Reddit, even - though that sure was a brief and shallow victory, all told.
Yeah I'm software educator in a few small niches. I used to just go and search the topic and make friends, help people out but now 99% of the posts are automated shilling for some business or some SEO spam.
I still try to pop in but it seems like Twitter is a lost cause especially since they put search behind login now. Just like Reddit they have alienated content creators and it shows.
And how is it when you search the subject with Nitter?
The same thing. I don't mean official Twitter ads - just spam.
Really? You can search with the algorithm-free alternative and still find mainly spam?
Yes. Try any programming niche and only 1 in 20 results seem to be an organic tweet not some spam for a click or service.
People didn't switch from Twitter to Mastodon because Twitter was still working. You could still post your content, you still had all your followers there.
Reddit, on the other hand, went "dark". Millions of users couldn't use their favorite subreddits. And through word of mouth, many of us found the fediverse alternatives Lemmy and Kbin. But sadly (and also understandably, because they put a ton of work into them), many mods didn't link to these alternatives, in the hopes that Spez would change his mind. In a way, this is the reason why Lemmy and Kbin are not growing even faster.
After Elon and Rogen harassed a covid scientist today with a follower doxing and going to the scientist’s house, I’m not sure how long twitter has left. That lawsuit is going to bury shit fast.
Fucking Joe Rogen man. I keep trying to give him the benefit of the doubt. He seems like the sort of person who believes what the last person told him until someone tells him the opposite. But now it seems like he's becoming actually malicious.
He’s gonna try to run for president one day isn’t he
With how 2016 went; everybody better pray he doesn't, including all atheists.
He has always been disingenuous and attracts people based off his willingness to smoke pot and do other drugs. He wants to uphold some kind of intellectual street cred by trying to goat people into a debate, but debate with people like Rogen is disingenuous and set up to make them a winner and the other a loser. It is the alt-right playbook over and over