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Side note, but I'm amazed that anyone that is not a journalist or a politician still actively uses X/twitter. Everyone I used to follow has stopped.

mardifoufs 2y ago
I've never seen more people use it, as in being actually active on it, and it pops up everywhere due to the community note memes. But yeah I really need to get around creating a Mastodon account since some very good posters moved there too.
BiteCode_dev 2y ago
Simple, I'm on Mastodon, Substack, Threads and Bluesky. And they are all barely breathing. The community density is low (because of the split), the discovery sucks (because of decentralization and no algo to suggest content), the culture is homogeneous (I encounter people mostly from one political side) and the publication of limited quality. You can't start new communities from old users. Communities are built by the young, they are the ones with the creativity, motivation and free time to do it. That's why twitter, made mostly by young people from 20 years ago, still got the inertia of it, are is more interesting and active. And that's why tik tok and roblox are full of life. I'm sure the kids are also elsewhere, where we are not looking, creating the communities of tomorrow.
- PaulHoule 2y ago
  I’d argue with that bit about creativity and youth. In sports, for instance, if you are talented and 15 there are pipelines into established and pro sports that make sense to follow. If you are 30 and missed your chance for that you can still be a pioneer in an emerging “extreme” sport. A lot of young people seem to think creativity is 99% asking for permission and 1% “just do it”, it takes some experience before people realize it is really the other way around.
zarathustreal 2y ago
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- immibis 2y ago
  I stopped using Twitter because "Space Man" banned most of one political side. Maybe if you didn't notice that, you're in a bubble?
  - cryptonector 2y ago
    I've not been following this stuff. Whom did Musk ban?
    - AnthonyMouse 2y ago
      Like most large social media sites, pre-Musk Twitter had some combination of algorithms and bureaucracy that act as a chaos monkey to shadowban and suspend accounts apparently at random, often with an inability to comprehend satire or under incoherent or undisclosed pretexts. The site's users and staff were predominantly left-leaning, so right-leaning accounts were disproportionately the victims of these false positives because of human bias in which posts are flagged and how they're subsequently moderated. Musk bought the site under a claim of doing something about the bias after Twitter suspended the account of a right-leaning satire site. Many of the existing users were displeased by this, because they liked having a site whose moderation system was biased in their favor, so some of them left. Meanwhile new right-leaning accounts were created as you might expect. This affected the ideological balance of the site, so even though it's still somewhat left-leaning it's less than before. And now when the drunk chaos monkey suspends an account on the left, people are finding new satisfaction in their ability to blame Musk in particular.
      - immibis 2y ago
        Musk has personally bragged about banning a lot of left-leaning accounts and unbanning right-leaning. What is your evidence that the site still leans left?
p9fus 2y ago
I refuse to use it and I can't even view tweet "threads" properly, nor replies or any kind of coherent timeline.... its unusable
infecto 2y ago
I'm amazed people like yourself care so much about it to write a post like this. Doesn't your brain have something better to think about beyond artificial outrage?
- lupusreal 2y ago
  "I'm surprised people use $WHATEVER because nobody uses it" usually means "I don't like $WHATEVER and wish you would stop using it." I see this frequently directed towards reddit and twitter.

mardifoufs 2y ago

I've never seen more people use it, as in being actually active on it, and it pops up everywhere due to the community note memes. But yeah I really need to get around creating a Mastodon account since some very good posters moved there too.

BiteCode_dev 2y ago

Simple, I'm on Mastodon, Substack, Threads and Bluesky. And they are all barely breathing. The community density is low (because of the split), the discovery sucks (because of decentralization and no algo to suggest content), the culture is homogeneous (I encounter people mostly from one political side) and the publication of limited quality. You can't start new communities from old users. Communities are built by the young, they are the ones with the creativity, motivation and free time to do it. That's why twitter, made mostly by young people from 20 years ago, still got the inertia of it, are is more interesting and active. And that's why tik tok and roblox are full of life. I'm sure the kids are also elsewhere, where we are not looking, creating the communities of tomorrow.

PaulHoule 2y ago
I’d argue with that bit about creativity and youth. In sports, for instance, if you are talented and 15 there are pipelines into established and pro sports that make sense to follow. If you are 30 and missed your chance for that you can still be a pioneer in an emerging “extreme” sport. A lot of young people seem to think creativity is 99% asking for permission and 1% “just do it”, it takes some experience before people realize it is really the other way around.

zarathustreal 2y ago

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immibis 2y ago
I stopped using Twitter because "Space Man" banned most of one political side. Maybe if you didn't notice that, you're in a bubble?
- cryptonector 2y ago
  I've not been following this stuff. Whom did Musk ban?
  - AnthonyMouse 2y ago
    Like most large social media sites, pre-Musk Twitter had some combination of algorithms and bureaucracy that act as a chaos monkey to shadowban and suspend accounts apparently at random, often with an inability to comprehend satire or under incoherent or undisclosed pretexts. The site's users and staff were predominantly left-leaning, so right-leaning accounts were disproportionately the victims of these false positives because of human bias in which posts are flagged and how they're subsequently moderated. Musk bought the site under a claim of doing something about the bias after Twitter suspended the account of a right-leaning satire site. Many of the existing users were displeased by this, because they liked having a site whose moderation system was biased in their favor, so some of them left. Meanwhile new right-leaning accounts were created as you might expect. This affected the ideological balance of the site, so even though it's still somewhat left-leaning it's less than before. And now when the drunk chaos monkey suspends an account on the left, people are finding new satisfaction in their ability to blame Musk in particular.
    - immibis 2y ago
      Musk has personally bragged about banning a lot of left-leaning accounts and unbanning right-leaning. What is your evidence that the site still leans left?

p9fus 2y ago

I refuse to use it and I can't even view tweet "threads" properly, nor replies or any kind of coherent timeline.... its unusable

infecto 2y ago

I'm amazed people like yourself care so much about it to write a post like this. Doesn't your brain have something better to think about beyond artificial outrage?

lupusreal 2y ago
"I'm surprised people use $WHATEVER because nobody uses it" usually means "I don't like $WHATEVER and wish you would stop using it." I see this frequently directed towards reddit and twitter.