Let’s review what Elon Musk has done just in 2023:
- Changed Twitter to X.
- Plans to implement a small monthly payment for everyone using the X system.
- Plans to collect user biometric information, job, and education history for “safety, security, and identification purposes.”
- Brings back shadowbanning.
- Uses user data to train AI models.
- Limits replies to verified users only.
Elon has made so many terrible changes to Twitter that I can’t remember what the breaking point was for me.
Fortunately, there’s a lot more competition in Twitter-like social media platforms. Mastodon may currently hold the position as the most established platform, but there are numerous other services competing to become the next preferred place for online users.
People still use Twitter?
People are were the content is, but using this platform after all that’s happened to it… Yeah no, I don’t get it either
You realize if you weren’t surrounded by lemmy zealots how seriously ignorant you folks sound right?
These people existed before lemmy, reddit or digg. just annoying to be around.
I have frequently found myself surrounded by Twitter and Instagram users, and they seem just as deluded as they do from here.
I don’t know anyone in real life who uses it. Even before Musk bought it out. I’m getting older so checked with gen z in my family and they don’t use it either.
It’s popular among journalists and media types so it gets talked about as if it’s a huge public forum for everyone but it’s not.
Why are you here exactly?
To read and comment on content?
Way too many massively good artists I follow are still on Twitter with no intention of leaving. Some are on Pixiv or DeviantArt, but most not.
They use Twitter because they can’t use MySpace
Yeah my classmates do
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Most people don’t care
That right there is the shitty truth
Shitty but hardly surprising. Twitter has a global reach, a decade+ of experience and momentum and critical mass etc. A twitter exodus isn’t going to happen over night.
Artists want their art to be seen by as many people as possible. Their livelihood probably depends on it.
It’s as if it’s a big problem to manage one more platform between all the ones they already do. Lot’s of apps and options to just automatically cross post content to multiple platforms too or just mirror mastodon to Twitter or vice versa.
At this point, ignoring or avoiding another platform where so many people already are is just laziness.