Great news — social media is falling apart::I don’t know where to post: there are too many social platforms, and the old giants are dying. The age of social media is splintering.
This is probably an overreaction. I do, however, think their growth is reversing and that’s why platforms like Facebook are diversifying rather rapidly. Things like Facebook marketplace and instagram are still hugely popular.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I wished they mentioned Lemmy, but at least they are talking about Mastodon. I don’t understand why more media outlets aren’t switching to Twitter, given how brazen Elon is with his enshittification.
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.
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…
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
The number of users is two orders of magnitude smaller for Mastodon…
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.
wazoobonkerbrain@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Elon’s enshittification of Twitter would be a reason to switch away from, not to, Twitter.
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.