Comment on Stephen King calls on Elon Musk to change 'X' back to Twitter
StraightArrow@feddit.de 8 months agoIt’s not easy to jump ship (because of the network effect) and possibly not being tech savvy enough to know where to land.
I jumped ship from Reddit this year after reading some posts about alternatives. I tried Tildes too, which I found interesting, but more of an experiment, than a substitute.
King (and others like him) may not know alternatives exist and can work just as easily.
Also, even if King knew of Mastodon, maybe his fans wouldn’t jump ship too even if he had said he’s moving there
It’s complicated
hardypart@feddit.de 8 months ago
According to your comment the solution seems to be keeping the status quo where a single company has that much power. This mega corporation power shit needs to stop, no matter what. The naming is the least issue. We’re heading towards a dystopian cyberpunk future and no one seems to give a fuck.
StraightArrow@feddit.de 8 months ago
Not really, no. I said I informed myself about alternatives to Reddit (as an example) and then dropped it and moved to Lemmy.
I said jumping ship for King may be hard for various possible reasons which I was trying to guess (and don’t pretend to know).
Mastodon is further along than Lemmy is, so I hope Stephen King can move there soon, but it might still take time.
If you have an X account (I never used Twitter/X), you can write King to let him know about Mastodon