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good, let Twitter die. Find it on this list soon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_networking_services https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_

by riffic 3y ago

good, let Twitter die. Find it on this list soon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_networking_services https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_network...

Dig1t 3y ago
The consequence of this will be that the entirety of online discussion will be in the hands of one company: Meta. I hate social media either way but it does seem problematic to have the vast majority public discourse moderated and controlled by one company.
- moogly 3y ago
  Meta's services are not public though? You can only read a few lines before you need to login, I think.
- Javalicious 3y ago
  Kinda? It's not like there aren't alternatives, but the user base numbers are vastly different. I'd be curious to know how many of these are active users now. BlueSky: 1 million (Sept 2023) https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bluesky-officially-hits-1-million-003243970.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bluesky-officially-hits-1-mil... Mastadon: 10 million (March 2023) https://www.statista.com/statistics/1376022/global-registered-mastodon-users/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1376022/global-registere... Threads: 100 million (July 2023) https://www.reuters.com/technology/metas-twitter-rival-threads-hits-100-mln-users-record-five-days-2023-07-10/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/metas-twitter-rival-threa...
  - fooofw 3y ago
    Threads is also made by Meta
- msm_ 3y ago
  I never used Meta. Discussion platforms I use are HN, reddit, ocassionaly twitter/mastodon and online chats, like mattermost or discord. Maybe I'm currently the minority, but even now it's not true that entirety of online discussion is controlled by Meta.
clessg 3y ago
My favorite part is that MySpace somehow isn't on this list. I.. I suppose I am one of today's lucky 10K: https://myspace.com/ https://myspace.com/ Incredible stuff.

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good, let Twitter die. Find it on this list soon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_networking_services https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_

by riffic 3y ago

good, let Twitter die. Find it on this list soon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_networking_services https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_network...

Dig1t 3y ago
The consequence of this will be that the entirety of online discussion will be in the hands of one company: Meta. I hate social media either way but it does seem problematic to have the vast majority public discourse moderated and controlled by one company.
- moogly 3y ago
  Meta's services are not public though? You can only read a few lines before you need to login, I think.
- Javalicious 3y ago
  Kinda? It's not like there aren't alternatives, but the user base numbers are vastly different. I'd be curious to know how many of these are active users now. BlueSky: 1 million (Sept 2023) https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bluesky-officially-hits-1-million-003243970.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bluesky-officially-hits-1-mil... Mastadon: 10 million (March 2023) https://www.statista.com/statistics/1376022/global-registered-mastodon-users/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1376022/global-registere... Threads: 100 million (July 2023) https://www.reuters.com/technology/metas-twitter-rival-threads-hits-100-mln-users-record-five-days-2023-07-10/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/metas-twitter-rival-threa...
  - fooofw 3y ago
    Threads is also made by Meta
- msm_ 3y ago
  I never used Meta. Discussion platforms I use are HN, reddit, ocassionaly twitter/mastodon and online chats, like mattermost or discord. Maybe I'm currently the minority, but even now it's not true that entirety of online discussion is controlled by Meta.
clessg 3y ago
My favorite part is that MySpace somehow isn't on this list. I.. I suppose I am one of today's lucky 10K: https://myspace.com/ https://myspace.com/ Incredible stuff.