For the reason above. There’s not a serious alternative that replaced it for those people.
I never seriously used twitter (I probably have used it less than 10 hours total), but what really is stopping people from getting on mastodon? It’s the same thing, and is extremely easy to sign up for.
It’s right there, not that I have much of a desire to use it, but if people like twitter, is it just that not enough people are on it? Just the network effect?
Twitter has more people, meaning more content. It’s the same reason I still have Reddit downloaded.
It’s not about having a serious alternative, what twitter does can mostly be written by like 10 people in 3 months. The problem is scaling it to be big enough while eating that cost until enough people start using it.
AND the advertising budget.
There’s no real way to break into that now without a ridiculous amount of investor capital which investors are gunshy in offering for shit like this right now.
We don’t need an alternative, we need the next generation and I hate to say it but it might just be Discord if they get their shit together.
S_204@lemm.ee 8 months ago
It’s fucked up how threads immediately devolved into a bigoted Antisemitic shit hole like twitter in a fraction of the time.
Is it impossible to develop a social media platform that doesn’t get overrun with conspiracy whack jobs and assholes?
ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Social media in modern times is an instrument of war. It will always be used as such whenever possible. So no, I think the answer is no
S_204@lemm.ee 8 months ago
It is fascinating watching what Iran, Qatar and Russia have pulled off this past few years.
Fluffyb@lemmy.nz 8 months ago
I think we just underestimate the amount of people who think like that
S_204@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Sadly I’ve just come to assume most people are Antisemitic bigots these days. I’d rather be pleasantly surprised than disappointed.