Submitted 2 months ago by elfpie@beehaw.org to technology@beehaw.org
https://taylorlorenz.substack.com/p/the-burning-of-the-library-of-alexandria
I’ve never been on twitter, but I’m not that surprised so many of us here were driving engagement.
Surely this could be good, right?
If celebrities need to be accessible to their biggest fans, maybe it would induce them to leave the birdsite? And if this is as big a migration as the article suggests, it has the potential to snowball in network effects, giving other influential users one less reason to feel chained to a dumpster fire.
I thought the same. Now plataforms have a target audience to focus. The accounts move, the artists have to follow, the rest has a reason to move as well.
The suspension could have wide-reaching effects on pop culture globally.
Damn, real shame that.
Oh well.
Well, if they are smart they will just migrate to Bluesky.
I gave up on trying to get people to Mastodon.
Yeah it seems like most Brazilian twitter users have gone to bluesky. I’m glad that so few went to threads actually.
What’s the problem? They’re just not sure which instance to go with?
Its the absolute lack of algorithm. No, really. I know Mastodon toots it as a feature, but without an algorithm to keep people scrolling most people just close the app and do something else. People who don’t understand instances would just go to mastodon.social anyway, but since no mastodon instance is actively trying to keep its users engaged 24/7, people naturally realize they have better things to do than to use social media all say.
Which is better for humanity, but bad for retention.
I think there’s a cultural difference too. Bluesky is much closer to (a subsection of) twitter culture pre-musk than anything else. Weather you think that’s good or bad is a matter of taste but it is probably the easiest thing to get people who like pre-musk twitter to switch to.
“The internet is the blue ‘E’ swirl thing on my computer’s home screen.”
Like the “Come to Brazil!” comments on every music video or concert on youtube.
Why are they all Brazilian?
Hey I’ve had a couple chats with Taylor. She’s real nice. Cool to see her posted on lemmy.
PotentiallyApricots@beehaw.org 2 months ago
People haven’t adjusted yet to the reality that online social ecosystems matter, they affect so much in the real world. Decimating multiple online spaces in such a short time has consequences and i hate that a handful of random guys with no stake in any of it except money get to make decisions like that.
koper@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Such is the fate of hypercentralized spaces. The fediverse fixes this.
PotentiallyApricots@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Hopefully the next places will be more durable. It is still SAD and damaging when vibrant communities get destroyed though. I am more lamenting that.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Not really, profiles cannot easily migrate and they lose their connections in the process