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The answer is twofold 1) Network effect combined with 2) coordination problem. One or few figures dropping off is just net loss for them, does not affect the X
by nabla9 3y ago
The answer is twofold 1) Network effect combined with 2) coordination problem. One or few figures dropping off is just net loss for them, does not affect the X at all. Only way to do the change is to coordinate and do it with critical mass.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordination_game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordination_game
https://fs.blog/coordination-problems/ https://fs.blog/coordination-problems/
Individual action can't solve problems effectively when the cost of changing behavior is too high when others don't follow immediately. Many public figures started their mastodon/bluesky/threads accounts but came back to Twitter when they didn't get following there.
- fsflover 3y ago> Individual action can't solve problems effectively Of course it can. Just publish posts on two platforms simultaneously. Or even delay the Twitter post.
- nabla9 3y agoMany do that, but discussion and readers are in Twitter. Crossposting to nothing is cheap but yields nothing. Cory Doctorow Mastodon: @pluralistic@mamot.fr 909 Following, 54K Followers Twitter: @doctorow, 2,814 Following, 494.4K Followers
- andsoitis 3y agoAnd actually it isn’t that cheap because if you post to say 4 (X, Bluesky, mastodon, Facebook), you now have to choose where you’re going to spend time reading and responding to others. On all of them or just on X, where the gravity is.
- fsflover 3y agoObviously you choose a platform which you want to promote. Hopefully the decentralized and FLOSS one (Mastodon).
- r721 3y agoThe problem I rarely see discussed is that if one user I follow posts to Twitter and Bluesky simultaneously and another totally left Twitter for Bluesky I as a Bluesky reader will have a mix of posts I have already seen on Twitter and original Bluesky posts on my timeline. There needs to be a way to somehow mark and filter crossposted content.
- fsflover 3y agoWhy would you follow the same person on two platforms if posts are the same?
- r721 3y agoYeah, that's a fair question and I usually don't do that if user posts more than 1-2 posts per day. But it's hard to know how the account will be used in advance when user says "I made an account on Bluesky, follow me there".
- fsflover 3y agoTo me, you numbers demonstrate that it works very well: compare the whole userbases of the two platforms and you will see that the engagement on Mastodon is larger and growing fast.
- nabla9 3y agoActive number of users has fallen over 1 million from the Twitter exodus times. There are lots of inactive accounts.
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