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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.
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I wished they mentioned Lemmy, but at least they are talking about Mastodon. I don’t understand why more media outlets aren’t switching away from Twitter, given how brazen Elon is with his enshittification.
EDIT: Away from Twitter, not to Twitter.
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.
The number of users is two orders of magnitude smaller for Mastodon…
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.
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.
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.
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.
Us that are tech literate tend to not see the giant mass of tech illiterate who will always use the stuff they know aka Facebook.
With very few exceptions, when a company goes public it goes to shit because they get stuck in the race to the bottom in order to appease the investors and completely fuck their loyal customers
When FB came along it was the first service that made connecting with both your close friends and acquaintances fairly convenient. Myspace had a thing going for sure but if I remember my experience was connecting with my closest friends (which we could already do with chat or email) + randoms.
FB actually found your friends and acquaintances for you. In the beginning, that was the only thing you saw too… not a page full of ads and people you don’t know.
As we all know it’s gone. That’s why we’ve all stopped going there to connect. It’s gone and the information we posted to share with friends was used inappropriately.
There is also nonstop pressure coming from potentially disruptive social startups. The people have fractured into many many different apps now.
But I don’t see a problem with that. The total number of people online is higher then ever. Old phpBB forums were awesome with only a few thousand users, and something like that will come again. We don’t need Facebook groups that are filled with adspam.
Seems like there’s a ripe opportunity for a federated group system.
Though none of these platforms have tried to make money yet
Isn’t this one of the big factors why they are so shitty (excluding donations/non profit)?
Will other platforms accept these companies exploitation or want to have anything with them? I would guess they will rot/enshitify along with them if so
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Technology was a mistake.
