Because my city deems it is still a good idea to post important announcements about roadworks and water interruptions/boil advisory there exclusively :/
Ugh same here in the NL with WhatsApp. People act as if it’s public infrastructure.
You don’t need an account to see those posts, right?
These days, you functionally do.
You can only view a single tweet at a time when not logged in, which can be a struggle if youre trying to just see updates in general and aren’t seeking a specific post.
I know because I have a friend who still sends me links to make them useful I have to put them in Nitter.
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To view a specific tweet you don’t, but as soon as you want to see more tweets by that same account without a direct link you get to a login page.
Wonder if there’s a proxy tool to view an account and feed fully.
I wish my city works like this. But noooo our local government uses FACEBOOK. ONLY. Twitter is still the lesser of two evils
If only more cities could provide a simple RSS feed…
With the small carve out exception of people who are fine with the antisocial behavior and management style of the owner, Inertia is the only reason. Governments, influencers, corporations- they all have a following and an established channel which involves minimum expense to maintain.
I’d say that the vast majority of people on Twitter couldn’t care less about Elon Musk himself. However, Twitter is actually going downhill now and the only ads I see anymore are either hardcore porn or scams. That’s what’s going to drive people off Twitter.
For several reasons:
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It’s where people are. It’s the whole fucking point of social networks! If the user base drops to a point where people are no longer there, I’ll go to the next network.
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If I were to boycott everything owned by a cunt, I’d probably live in a mud hut, naked in a park somewhere.
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The self-gratification on here doesn’t make me want to use Twitter any less.
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For all it’s faults, there isn’t a legitimate competitor. Mastodon has no users and has a less intuitive interface than Twitter. BlueSky is…I couldn’t even tell you what the fuck it is. Threads is basically a meme project by Zuck (another billionaire cunt) to toy with Musk, and it’ll be dead within a year.
FWIW, I fucking hate Musk. I’m a software engineer, and one of the few big tech companies I wanted to work for was Twitter. Their branding was cool, they worked on cool tech problems, and I heard great things about their workplace culture back in around 2010-2012. Musk fucked up a company I liked.
I’ve long considered Musk to be a fraud, and to be honest Twitter is the least of his problems. He’s clearly a very sick man that probably needs professional help above everything else.
If he were a normal person, someone would’ve cornered him and coerced him into medical detainment. If people thought I had a coke problem that affected my ability to conduct meetings and think clearly, I’d be out on my ass. Musk can get away with it because he owns his companies, and no one cares enough about him to help him. He’s a dancing monkey that doesn’t realise that people are laughing at him, not with him…
What cool tech problem has twitter worked on in the last decade?
The infrastructure around sending small chunks of data around at that scale, at a time when people were sending larger files/messages around was interesting, enough so that even to this day “design twitter” is the canonical system design interview question.
They were also initially behind some cool things in the front-end space, like Bootstrap.
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That ones easy and zero percent a twitter thing. Multi AZ infra is incredibly common and industry standard
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It has, but they don’t have the users. I think that most social networks are a “right place, right time” phenomena. If Twitter or Instagram were to be released today, with all of its current features, it would probably be DOA.
BlueSky and Mastodon are solid, technically, but neither have cornered a part of the market that speaks to the average person. BlueSky is “we’re Twitter, but with no users”, and Mastodon solves a problem that few care about.
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Well, Meta has money, and Threads probably won’t last more than a year or two.
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Sports. I can get a hundred tweets of highlights almost instantly on Twitter.
Really only to get notifications of weather stuff from my local NWS office.
My favorites artists are still on there, I usually spend 2 minutes on there to see what they’re posting and leave, I wish they had mastodon account tho
The furry porn community is still licking their wounds over losing Tumblr, and a lot of the big artists just don’t want to have to rebuild their community for the second time, so that’s where they are. I don’t like that I have to go to such a cesspool, but damnit, that’s where the furry porn is.
Licking their wounds is an interesting choice of words here lol
Chosen very much on purpose. ;)
Thank you for your honest answer.
i feel like at this point, we could just build our own. It’s not like we aren’t capable lmao.
My entire fandoms are there. Also twitter is ok if you follow the right people, you don’t depend on the trending list and you dgaf about follower count.
Thus pisses me off. The big fandoms and influencers could move. But all the people are on X. The users couldove, but all the fandoms and influencers are on X. It’s a fucking loop where no one wants to make the first move
I used to spend my lunches watching videos on reddit’s /r/videos and for yeeeeeeeears they would just post videos of influencers talking about how they’re getting fucked by youtube. I rarely go to YouTube, I rarely use most social media I just wanted to waste my 5 to 10 minutes of eating a sandwich and watching a silly video or something, But I suddenly was very knowledgeable about all the stupid YouTube drama and it felt to me like the solution was to go somewhere else, in fact I got so fucking annoyed by these constant bitching about a garbage website that I stopped this lunch tradition entirely (But not before posting a long rant like an old man yelling at a cloud). However if there was an exodus that would also be admitting that these influencers would have to basically start over or hope their followers would follow them. They’re tied to their income I guess. I find it pretty despicable but I think that’s the reason. These people make a wild amount of money and it’s hard to walk away from it out of principle (for them, cause they scared lil b-holes).
Because there’s still a strong football/soccer community there, along with Reddit
I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted, I agree with you (at least on the Reddit part) The soccer community exists on Lemmy, but it’s just not even remotely close to Reddit’s
Yeah. Even the largest leagues and teams are basically impossible to follow on anything but Reddit and Twitter. For smaller teams? Nothing else exists…
I haven’t been active on Twitter / X for years. My last proper tweet was in November 2022 when I asked people to follow me on Mastodon instead.
I still have my account though. Mostly because friends occasionally send me links to news tweets that X won’t show me without being logged in. And because customer support for some service providers (especially DHL, GLS and some other logistics companies) suddenly gets a lot more helpful when you complain in public instead of calling them and they don’t have Mastodon accounts.
I’m a follower, I don’t post, reply, like, or anything. I just want to see what the people I follow have to say, and they haven’t moved anywhere else.
Because I don’t care about how the owner of the service is.
My best guess: Ignorance is bliss.
(As for me I deleted my Twitter account that moment Elon bought the platform).
Not me, but my dad.
The only reason he stays is because of the politicians and news outlets he follows. He knows Twitter is trash now, but if that’s where the people he’s following are staying, then he stays too. He has heard of Mastodon and looked into it, but it’s unfortunate most politicians won’t migrate over there.
Which is kind of ridiculous. I mean sure a politician is going to still post on twitter because there’s more people there, but they could simply copy and paste their statements to Mastodon. They pretty much all have staff and they could reach a different audience for the time it would take to copy and paste some text.
I have the distinction of having made my current presence on there a literal 24 hours before Musk announced he was going through with buying Twitter. By the time he was shown to be the kind of person he was, it had already become an inseparable piece of my mind and creations. If he bans me for speaking out against him, that will be a sign. Maybe this will be my speed bump.
I don’t think you totally get the capitalism thing or something? You don’t protest a capitalist by giving them money.
Who said I was giving anyone money?
I’m not? This question should really have a preface to it
Come on dude
lol, this comment perfectly captures what a Lemmy user is like
The Ricky Gervais joke about guitar lessons applies.
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People commenting on things that are not aimed at them, or complaining about it.
Like seeing an advert for guitar lessons with a phone number attached, calling the number and telling them how much you really don’t want guitar lessons, when all you had to do was ignore it.
Ah. Ty
No one forced you to comment.
Why are you a pedophile?
That’s an interesting question, PP_BOY
