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Such a silly thing to use this or the other weird instanced services. I go to that and half is in Chinese? Just use Twitter for the "one" platform instead of i
by maxlin 3y ago
Such a silly thing to use this or the other weird instanced services. I go to that and half is in Chinese?
Just use Twitter for the "one" platform instead of intentionally locking yourself to a bubble. Twitter hasn't gone anywhere.
- WendyTheWillow 3y ago…Twitter literally does not exist anymore.
- skybrian 3y agoDo you mean the name change? The domain name hasn't changed, so in some sense it's the same as it always was.
- RIMR 3y agoIs that your standard? So long as they own the same domain name, you won't notice any change of ownership, rebranding, or degradation of service? I guess MySpace and Digg are just as healthy as they've always been. Domain names are the same, so no need for nuance about anything else.
- skybrian 3y agoI think Twitter has changed quite a bit. I don't think you have to use the new name. We can talk about "old Twitter" or say "Twitter used to be better."
- kalleboo 3y ago> The domain name hasn't changed I don't use the site myself so I don't know what redirects are in place, but most links people send me are now x.com rather than twitter.com
- bigstrat2003 3y agoNah, screw that. I refuse to acknowledge idiotic rebranding nonsense. It's still Twitter as far as I'm concerned (ditto for Facebook, Comcast, etc).
- maxlin 3y agoNeither does Google as-is in the same role, it's "Alphabet" now. Semantics don't matter but I guess you don't have any other comeback?
- WendyTheWillow 3y agoYes it does, as a subsidiary.
- afavour 3y ago> Twitter hasn't gone anywhere. Twitter the service hasn’t gone anywhere but Twitter the, I dunno, culture? is long gone. A series of changes have made it a notably worse place to spend time… so I’m spending a lot less time there. That said I’m not really using Mastodon either despite having signed up. It’s missing something too.
- pseg134 3y agoAlmost everyone is still using Twitter, so it’s you that is gone not the culture.
- threeseed 3y agoIn the Australian App Store right now: - TikTok (#11) - Instagram (#12) - Facebook (#18) - Threads (#25) - X (#123) So based on available data it clearly isn't where it used to be in terms of popularity. And based on poor Twitter Blue subscription numbers [1] and the fact advertising revenue has halved [2] the company isn't financially doing so well either. [1] https://github.com/travisbrown/blue https://github.com/travisbrown/blue [2] https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/twitters-ad-revenue-has-slumped-by-half-elon-musk-admits-97087z9m0 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/twitters-ad-revenue-has-s...
- maxlin 3y agoThis post reserves a prize for illuminating how something that looks authorative due to words like "based on data" and listing sources can still be extremely misinforming. Here's some real data: https://www.similarweb.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/twitter_threads_3.png https://www.similarweb.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/t... TLDR: Threads basically died quickly after its birth. Twitter for user count is doing pretty much as good as it has ever been doing. Considering the pointless outrage about it going to crash is dying, advertisers are re-warming their feet after ADL's previous nefarious influence on them seems to be waning, I can't think but of the "Twitter dead" rhetoric coming to its end permanently.
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- threeseed 3y agoI would prefer to use platforms built around an open standard e.g. ActivityPub. It sets a good example for social networks and the idea of choosing a server which matches your preferred level of moderation seems workable.
- cmrdporcupine 3y agoSo why are you here, in this bubble here? Surely you should go over to Twitter, or whatever he's calling it these days... the "one" platform, right?
- maxlin 3y agoTwitter clones tend to be a lot more bubble-like because they kind of try to seem like a "town square" but actually and up being more like a North Korean town square. Or a square in a gated community. HN obviously is its own area like a subreddit. That is what I like about this place. Minimalist in scope and tech, no endless financial growth pressure as a project.
- ceejayoz 3y agoNot seeing any Chinese in your feed is pretty indicative of a bubble around you, given it's ~16% of the world population.
- bigstrat2003 3y agoI get where you're coming from, but I don't really think that's right. If Chinese speakers are 16% of the world's population, I actually have pretty decent odds of not having any in my feed or whatever.
- maxlin 3y agoNo. You're being childish. Language barriers is something a good platform avoids you hitting in to, and instead of ever showing language that the reader very likely doesn't know, it would auto-translate.
- ceejayoz 3y agoNo. A well-intentioned bubble remains a bubble, and translation is imperfect even when done by experts, let alone AI.
- toofy 3y ago> Just use Twitter for the "one platform... > ... intentionally locking yourself into a bubble. im not trying to be snarky, but, i mean, using a closed off eco-system like twitter and suggesting people to use "one" platform is quite literally bubbling yourself. using other options is the opposite of a bubble.
- maxlin 3y ago>using _other_ options is the opposite of a bubble. Where the word "other" can be easily substituted for "alternative" means you're leaving the larger contiguous area for something smaller. Twitter is the de-facto town square, and considering one is likely most on one platform, staying on Twitter is the most "open" option for reach of both your words and your ears. Of course if one has time, they read different angles from the same things from tons and tons of sources. That is what I do but don't realistically recommend it because of the time investment
- rsynnott 3y agoYou are of course perfectly welcome to hang out in Naughty Old Mr Car’s increasingly broken playground, but it’s not for me, thanks.