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Rather than counting users, I'll be more interested to see if any specific communities actually manage to collectively transition to another service. It's not 2
by kibwen 4y ago
Rather than counting users, I'll be more interested to see if any specific communities actually manage to collectively transition to another service. It's not 2006 anymore, nobody makes an account on Twitter because they want to "microblog" about the sandwich they had for lunch; no, you make an account on Twitter because, say, you're a ML researcher and all the prominent ML researchers are talking on Twitter. If the prominent ML researchers leave, then to an ML researcher doesn't matter how many users Twitter retains, because the ML crowd will follow the core. Conversely, even if Twitter were to lose 99% of its users, if the core ML researchers stick around then the ML community would also stick around.
- UncleMeat 4y agoI suspect that this framing will make the number feel even worse. The number of complete (or even majority) communities that this 70k number represents is surely very nearly zero.
- kibwen 4y agoIt could be better or worse. Communities tend to follow their core members. If those 70k users were the most connected and central nodes in any of Twitter's thousands of subcommunities, it would precipitate a significant shift. But if those 70k users are leaf nodes, then it will amount to no change as far as Twitter is concerned.
- camjohnson26 4y agoA big chunk of the $TSLAQ community moved to Discord, but the experience is very different. For context these are the people who took early bets against Tesla and have been calling out its unethical practices. A lot of people are understandably nervous about continuing that research on a platform owned by its CEO.
- mardifoufs 4y agoDifferent in a good or bad way?
- camjohnson26 4y agoNot great, the signal to noise ratio is off because everyone’s posts have equal weight, where on Twitter since you choose who to follow you can curate your own feed. On Twitter it feels like the important posts rise to the top so it’s great way of keeping track of news, but With Discord it’s much easier to miss important posts. Also threads are harder to follow, and since channels aren’t public by default and don’t have a web address you can’t bookmark threads to reference later.
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