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U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 2 days agowhen you have thousands to millions of followers on a platform, from their side, it’s hard to lose that audience.
what does this signify? if these people are “following” you, are they really following you if they can’t be assed to follow you to a different platform? or is it possible that they’re all just bullshit and don’t actually give a flying fuck about you? is that what people are afraid of?
out of those thousands/millions of followers, how many of them are actually engaging/sharing/memeing your shit?
Pika@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
In the case of content creators, you go where your audience goes. Almost all of the content creators I watch went back to twitter and almost exclusively post only live notices and social updates. I don’t have one that has a good opinion of the platform but, there’s a much larger audience there so therefore they stay.
Visibility is everything, and there are many steps between following you off the platform and not engaging with your stuff. Many will not follow a creator to an alternative platform if it means having to juggle an additional network, they will just let that creator fall out of their interest group.
Heck, the same can be said about viewers as well though, I know for a fact I wouldn’t be on lemmy if I still used reddit. It is too annoying having to juggle multiple social media platforms.
U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Pika@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I think your biggest roadblock here is the assumption all on the platform are pedophiles tbh. I don’t use twitter either, its blocked by choice on my DNS blocker but, I’m not wearing drunk goggles thinking every person on there is a pedo. regardless of the owners of it, it’s still really the only valid mainstream option for content creators. Do you have a better option? Because I know bsky or lemmy sure as hell aint going to get the job done for them.
U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
damn…how did you know?