Whilst I mostly agree with you, what I use Twitter for, and now Mastodon, is to get updates on projects and events. I follow projects like Asahi Linux (where devs post updates from their personal accounts), or various service providers or trending hashtags to get real-time updates on events, such as say an M365 outage, a zero day vulnerability, or a natural disaster (eg: earthquakes). Sure, there are other sites as well that report on events, but these sites mostly get their updates from Twitter (and not having an account on it would exclude you from participating). Thanks to Twitter, I’ve been able to interact directly with developers, netsec folks, organisations and just randoms from across the world - all of which, has been convenient to do so via a single platform. It’s kinda hard to replicate that sort of interaction across other platforms.
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Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 1 year agoHere’s the thing - you don’t need either of them
d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
war@kbin.social 1 year ago
Whatever lame-ass excuse makes you sleep at night, junkie.
atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I mean… You don’t need Lemmy either yet here you are.
PupBiru@kbin.social 1 year ago
and you don’t need lemmy/kbin either, but yknow we like it
what’s your point?
BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
metallic_substance@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Weirdly, I think you both have excellent points. And yet I’m here. At this point I’m almost not sure why
Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 1 year ago
You should tweet that. I mean X it. I mean just keep it to yersel eh
metallic_substance@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Actually, I take that back. One of you is an idiot