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Ulrich@feddit.org 1 week agoI honestly don’t know how to be more clear. It’s called a social graph. The most important thing about a social network, above everything else, is having lots of users. Cory and Molly both know and understand that if they left Xitter, they would lose access to a substantial amount of their audience, so they both stay, despite being some of the platform’s harshest critics and the biggest supporters of it’s alternatives. That’s the answer to the question “why would anyone use it?”. The social graph.
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
but the only way to break through this is to change the platform. Since both of them already keep their posts equal on both sites, it makes switching easier for everyone; removing their content from Xitter would be an incentive for others to switch.
The ideal way would be to try and band together a large amount of “regular posters” and completely switch on an agreed date together; that would have a pull effect for others to do the same.
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 week ago
I wasn’t trying to make any sort of argument why they should be doing that, only why they are.