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Martin Fowler's 2024 thoughts on the state of social media
- gnabgib 2y agoArticle title: My 2024 thoughts on the state of social media Also note the disclaimer: This article is a draft. Please do not share or link to this URL until I remove this notice
- worik 2y agoHe has published the link himself
- crossroadsguy 2y agoYup. "This page is not public yet, please do not find this page". Totally.
- andrewstuart 2y agoThe competitors to Twitter got the biggest free shot at goal they’ll ever have when users revolted about a year ago and looked for alternatives. Nothing succeeded in dethroning Twitter.
- evgen 2y agoYou are kidding, right? Twitter is hemorrhaging users and its ad revenue has cratered. Bluesky and Threads are picking up a ton of these refugees and over the past four months I have been seeing a lot of companies leaving Twitter and moving other to these other platforms. Twitter has already been dethroned, within twelve months it will be obvious to all.
- dragontamer 2y agoFediverse seems to have grown into a solid niche as well. It's smaller than what you might be used to... but large enough to have a real sense of community now. It's a bit of a bubble but that's not necessarily a bad thing. That's Lemmy.world, Mastodon.world, and various other Lemmy/Mastodon instances that have popped up.
- arcbyte 2y agoI don't see this at all. I've had a twitter account since it started but I never found ti that useful until the past couple years. I don't see the point in Threads or Blusky except as short lived tantrums over the owners politics.
- tail_exchange 2y agoWe have very different experiences then. I used to open Twitter very once in a while, but a few months ago I completely stopped using it. It became a non-stop firehose of right-wing propaganda, ragebait, Trump, and bot spam. It's completely unusable.
- xsmasher 2y agoSix months ago I would have believed you; but Bluesky is having a moment right now and stacking on users at an incredible rate. It's hitting a real tipping point.
- valiant55 2y agoYeah, the seeds were planted a year ago and are blooming now. Migration doesn't happen instantaneously, but builds up over time as momentum grows.