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Have you seen any such advertising at all on the fediverse?

• talldayo 2y ago
  No, but as a Fediverse user I can tell you firsthand that it's a less successful or attractive platform than X or Facebook. Not that I mind, but I think the statement still stands.
  • mattl 2y ago
    X is dying and a series of terrible decisions are contributing towards it. Most recently allowing people who are blocked to view posts.
    • talldayo 2y ago
      Twitter has been dying since the moment it was born. It never turned a profit under Dorsey, sure as hell won't turn a profit under Musk, and will likely die after being traded around as a hot-potato asset after Elon liquidates. Maybe Zuckerburg will wake up with a chip on his shoulder and buy it to make "Twitter: A Meta Product". HN would sure get a kick out of that. None of that really changes the popularity or adoption of federated alternatives, though. I think people are getting tired of social media and are cutting it out of their lives whether they realize it or not. Musk's politically-motivated ramblings definitely drove the knife in the back, but I'm not going to smile and pretend that @jack incorporating crypto features into Twitter wasn't cringeworthy and drove people away too. I never made a Twitter account specifically because I knew this would happen, and now that it's gone up in flames I don't find myself being more active on the fediverse. I think I just resent the whole thing as a vain and poorly commercialized popularity contest.