I think the amount of people who are familiar with search engine options besides Google is quite a bit larger than the population of Lemmy. (It fuckin better be, anyway)
Comment on Google is no longer asking — feed the AI or you’re not in search results
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoPart 5 is where I don’t see this actually going.
Look at twitter. Now look at mastodon. Tell me which one is more shitty. Now tell me which one has something like 85% of the market, and which one most people haven’t heard of.
Just because something it better, doesn’t mean people use it. You can fit all of Lemmy in the world in one of the larger NBA size arenas. You can’t even fit twitters total user base into some smaller CITIES.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Twitter will be dead within 1-2 years, Elon will make sure of that
hobovision@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
He’s already owned it for nearly two years. I’d definitely take the over on that bet. I just don’t see what Twitter could possibly do that they haven’t done already to kill it?
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
This last “let’s sue advertisers to force them to come back a d put their ads next to neo Nazis” is just another nail in the coffin.
Hell Be gone soon enough and his legacy will be “what did anyone ever see in that scammer?”
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
God I hope you’re right, but doubt you are.
Womble@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
At least in the UK there is now lots of mainstream discussion of “Is it time for people to leave twitter as it’s too much of a cesspool”. Granted they usually then mention threads or bluesky as an alternative not mastodon, but it is definitely possible for social media companies to die out. Once people start to leave in large numbers it can become a mass exodus (see digg and myspace).
balder1991@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I think the issue now is that the market got fragmented and now you can’t find as much content as before without using multiple services.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
He’s now suing advertisers to force them to pay him money because he told them (literal quote) to go fuck them selves after they didn’t wanted to have their ads shown next to neo Nazis, and well, they all left. Good luck with that, forcing advertisers to come back, lol.
Twitter is barely having any income and the interest in the loans to buy twitter alone cost a billion per year.
Twitter (and I fucking refuse to call it x) will be gone soon