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iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years agoArchitecture of each S media is so damn good, you really do NEED big ones in each category:
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Twitter: Interact w Celebs and millions. Concise dopamine hits. Millions of concentrated thoughts
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Youtube: Make/Watch TV shows without a big budget or staff/studio.
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Facebook: Find old friends. Find/Create events. Marketplace. Old family members still WhatsApp
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Reddit: Enormous library of user created content sorted by categories. Used to have open discussion
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TikTok: Short videos with algorithm to give you a stream of interesting content
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Instagram: Sluts taking photos. Thirsty dudes jacking off.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Youtube's got plenty competition, their monopoly will fall quickest.
Twitter has competition, but millions of followers is an advantage they are slowly bleeding. Maybe 5 years.
Facebook will be around for 1 or 2 decades, since many old contacts there. Gramma and Gramps around the world need to move to Truth Social/Gab. That will take a LONG time.
Reddit... my favorite. I really think Wolfballs is on the right path. Haven't seen other good alternatives. Discord is not the same thing. I don't know if or when Reddit will be replaced. Shame
TikTok/Insta - I don't care
masterofballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Twitter is the most vulnerable and the fediverse is making good strides eating up it's users. Really both gab and truth social are forks so they count in that. For active users I actually believe we are already at a half way point in destroying twitter. It just has the celebs. And they have been posting less and less.
Youtube is probably technically the most difficult to compete with but it's also the easiest to migrate off of. Most people are not deeply invested in their youtube account. They just go there to watch vids. Their subscription list is the only valuable thing. I use invidious running locally for that so I don't contribute to youtube. I actually do have a channel with a couple hundred subscribers I may grow just so I can direct them away from youtube.
This one is extremely vulnerable. Young people have already migrated away. 20 year olds don't use it. Facebook knows this and is trying to diversify.
I really liked this one and was only using it instead of facebook. Facebook bought it and I kept using it for a while. These days I don't post anything at all. Facebook fact checks all my funny memes and it's lame. I keep if for some language learning stuff.
The fediverse has a solid alternative but it's written in php, it's hard to install, it's bandwidth hungry
They own this market. And I don't see any competitor coming anytime soon. Vine had the chance and ruined it.
You forgot to mention linked in. That would might get eaten up by git tea once federation is working well. Atleast for developers.
Someone should attempt a open source alternative.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Gab Explore's Facebook format compared to Tweets, is bad for retention. Grampa generation. Younger + normies will find it boring:
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iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
LinkedIn: Its the fucking Devil. Fuck it with fire. I truly truly despise it.
I just answer some recruiters there, and fuck off. Its so fake virtue signalling and woke. FUCK !
masterofballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
It is a good tool to talk to recruiters and companies though. It's made looking for a job so easy when ever I need to.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Twitter's only competition... sadly, is Gettr. Platforms with long format content will not win Twitter audience retention. The format IS Twitter secret sauce
Youtube has more views, but in just 1 year, Rumble/Oddyssee views are 10x. Hope its not bots.
Facebook is only Grampa/Grammy now. That's why its so hard to kill. It will take decades, unless someone finds a way to push them to Gab/Truth
masterofballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Tim Pool killed Gettr. I don't think it will grow substantially. Truth social has tons of potential here. It can't keep up with new user growth.