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There was no mass exodus. The sports and celebrity people are still on twitter. Nobody cares about rando journalists and techies, who are a vanishingly small
by linuxftw 3y ago
There was no mass exodus. The sports and celebrity people are still on twitter. Nobody cares about rando journalists and techies, who are a vanishingly small part of the platform.
- observd 3y agoOn the other hand, it shows they still have some level of influence that people think there was as mass exodus.
- rcarr 3y agoHard disagree with this. The majority don’t care about twitter, the only people who absolutely adore it are journalists and techies which is why it was such a big deal in the news and on forums and everyone in the real world just went about their business. The celebrities are only there for marketing and connecting with the journalists.
- linuxftw 3y agoWhich Mastodon does LeBron James use again?
- brewdad 3y agoI wouldn't know. I haven't watched an NBA game in over a decade.
- LightBug1 3y ago>>×The majority don’t care about twitter Exactly. Exactly. Good luck to Substack, though. I'm rooting for them in this scenario.
- LightBug1 3y agoActually, I'll take that back... https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR35o66A/ https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR35o66A/
- sleepybrett 3y agoSubstack has attracted so many shrill rightwing kooks (Greenwald being the canary in that particular coalmine) that when I see someone has a substack I roll my eyes. So here's to them being a more pretentious rumble/truth/parler/etc...
- BiteCode_dev 3y agoI follow mostly techies, very few went to mastodon, and among them were none of the ones I cared about. Seems like the people doing the most things in my field have no time for drama and are busy doing stuff, while the ones that actually accomplish little have the time and energy for this.
- emptysongglass 3y agoCounterpoint: most of the Cloud Native crowd I follow moved to Hachyderm. > Seems like the people doing the most things in my field have no time for drama and are busy doing stuff, Standing up for ethics isn't performative drama. I made my exit very quietly because I didn't have time for the drama of a petulant tyrant. I care that the tech I consume is open source or at the very least is guided by some principal of any good kind.
- BiteCode_dev 3y agoSure. People spent months and a tremendous amount of energy discussing the state of a site that is a glorified animated wall of text, but it's not drama. Sometimes I wish I could teleport this community to were I lived in Mali and force you to stay there for 6 months to re-calibrate your sense of what's important.
- Ygor 3y agoMost people didn't. Some small group of people spent tremendous amount of energy. I think both of you agree on that point.
- mjmsmith 3y agoSame thing with iOS devs, everyone I followed on Twitter is now on Mastodon.
- danjac 3y agoMost of the Python developers I followed are on Mastodon. "Techies" has lots of sub-cultures, so it could be C# or React developers are stuck on Twitter, for example, so if you are in those groups it might seem nobody has left.
- naravara 3y agoI don't follow that much of the sports world, but the celebrities are definitely shifting more towards Instagram. I feel like Twitter is rapidly distilling down to LinkedIn type hustle-culture influencers.