My thoughts on Twitter
“I can’t leave Twitter – all my followers are there.”
“I can’t leave Twitter – all the people I follow are there.”
It feels like the obvious first step is for the people with many followers to start posting all their content on multiple sites, so that the second point no longer applies.
The trickiest part is the lack of a fully agreed upon alternative. Do you go to Mastodon, instagram, threads, etc? While some folks might have an alternative that they view as a no brainer, it’s pretty clear that there isn’t overwhelming consensus. Mastodon seems perhaps the most popular as a direct Twitter alternative, but it regularly faces complaints about usability and discoverability. If people post to both Twitter and some random alternative, if that alternative varies wildly, followers will stay on Twitter cause it’s where all their favourites are.
I see it a few different ways:
- They revere Elon Musk
- They are far right-winged
- They are watching it burn to the ground and are secretly grinning inside
- They actually believe its headed in the right direction
They can also be a combination of the above.
I don’t care. I am on Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, Lemmy, and probably a shit ton more. And I jump wherever I want. It doesn’t matter who is in control. Just the fun I have with a platform. The value it has for my life.
And Twitter is now even more fun than before. It’s so toxic, so much discussions, I love it.
It has never been docile, but boy, shits finally let loose. It’s like Reddit in the good old days.
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