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I don't understand the attraction to Twitter especially after Musk took over. If you're not logged in, the site barely works which prevents a lot of people from
by hypeatei 2y ago
I don't understand the attraction to Twitter especially after Musk took over. If you're not logged in, the site barely works which prevents a lot of people from seeing your post or staying up-to-date.
I thought for sure the rebrand + enshittification would completely kill it but I guess some are still latching on for some reason.
- criddell 2y agoIt’s not Twitter itself, it’s the people and conversations. Probably the same reason you use HN.
- badsectoracula 2y ago> some are still latching on for some reason. Reason being the network effect. I'd rather use Mastodon but everyone i'd follow posts on Twitter - even the people i follow on Mastodon at best put the same posts on Twitter and -way more often than not- barely put anything on Mastodon.
- hypeatei 2y agoYeah, I thought the network effect would be "wow this site is even more garbage than before" and then go somewhere else, but I guess not.
- viraptor 2y agoIt did happen. We just learned that the networks in network effect are not that well connected. For example most of the security community did migrate to Mastodon. But there are many groups that make up Twitter and lots of them stayed.
- kmeisthax 2y agoThere's a few communities stubbornly remaining on Twitter for some reason. In particular, communities built around anything coming out of Japan - e.g. rhythm games, anime, or vtubers.
- toyg 2y agoAn better competitor would likely kill twitter in less than a year. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be one. Mastodon is significantly worse in so many ways, for normal people. Other services are not significantly better, which makes it impossible to break the huge network effects that Twitter/X have built over more than a decade.