Comment on Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to keep using it?
Womble@lemmy.world 2 months agohmmm I wonder if that is considered in the thousands of words of this article…
It got more unpleasant after the blue-tick fiasco: identity verification became something you could buy, which destroyed the trust quotient. So I joined the rival platform Mastodon, but fast realised that I would never get 70,000 followers on there like I had on Twitter. It wasn’t that I wanted the attention per se, just that my gang wasn’t varied or noisy enough. There’s something eerie and a bit depressing about a social media feed that doesn’t refresh often enough, like walking into a shopping mall where half the shops have closed down and the rest are all selling the same thing.
It’s the chicken and egg problem. People don’t move to Mastodon because there are less users and there are less users because people don’t move.
However if someone consumes less social media because there are “less people making noise”, I consider that a good thing.
winterayars@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Imagine not having 70,000 followers. Fate worse then death.
Womble@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The purpose of twitter like platforms is to have people to listen to and people to listen to you, so yes vastly lower user counts is a drawback.