Comment on Great news — social media is falling apart

p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Inertia and that it still has a large userbase. The media outlets and corporations won’t leave until something causes a mass exodus – like Twitter/X becoming subscription only.

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  • Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, seeing a lot of places capitulating, replacing the Twitter bird with an X. Though the BBC has been experimenting with Mastodon for a few months, lately…

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    • p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Along with MSNBC, ProPublica, Voice of America, The Mirror, Rolling Stone, Al Jazeera, and a bunch of others.

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• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The number of users is two orders of magnitude smaller for Mastodon…

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  • p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Use both Mastodon and Twitter, and then jump ship from Twitter once the time is right. Once Twitter is completely gated by a paywall, the whole thing will just collapse.

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• wazoobonkerbrain@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t understand why more media outlets aren’t switching to Twitter, given how brazen Elon is with his enshittification.

  Elon’s enshittification of Twitter would be a reason to switch away from, not to, Twitter.

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• mint_tamas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Part of the reason could be that when there was a large wave of people switching, including journalists on their own instance, that instance promptly got blocked by a large percentage of the fediverse based on some unclear moral grounds.

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