It’s the network effect. People still use it because other people are there.
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grayman@lemmy.world 1 year agoI was not aware anyone was being required to use the twat platform.
SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
xX_fnord_Xx@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah. I’m not famous at all, but I could imagine it would be troublesome trying to migrate a popular account with thousands of followers to another service.
Even if you were successful, you’d probably only retain a quarter of your followers because most people can’t be ballsed to dl/sign up for another app.
Half your followers on Twitter are probably bots or inactive anyhow, so take that as you will.
WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I’m not on twitter and never was, but I’m not silly enough to think billionaires don’t shape my world in a million fucking ways with their unilateral decisions. Elon here has a HUGE one recently in deciding to disable starlink during a Ukraine offensive.
Trying to assist his rich buddies with fucking with the union is a lower tier crime but still its fuckery that affects a lot of people.
Then we’ve got other rich asshats selling state secrets for money.
Billionaires are a liability and everyone needs to realize it.
zbyte64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
The “I don’t use Twitter so that’s a you problem” is a thought terminating cliche.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Beholden by choice. They’re simps.