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And as someone who has accounts on both Bluesky and Mastodon, I see very little activity there--as well as much less on Twitter/X. Musk basically succeeded in k
by ghaff 2y ago
And as someone who has accounts on both Bluesky and Mastodon, I see very little activity there--as well as much less on Twitter/X. Musk basically succeeded in killing much of the micro-blogging (or whatever you call it) ecosystem. A lot of people have just largely walked away from the whole thing. And maybe that's OK on net although something ended up lost.
- Sharlin 2y agoI think many people have been super tired of the entire format and all the terrible interaction that it breeds, but didn't have a good enough reason to quit (because after all, there still was and is a community there, plus the dopamine fix of course) until now.
- ghaff 2y ago100% agree. A lot of people were probably staying on and regularly using Twitter out of momentum. And when Musk came along, their interactions probably decreased drastically because so many people dropped out, or they just themselves decided this was a good forcing function to largely leave. None of the alternatives were especially good. So the whole format is a shadow of its former self--at least in the tech space (and I avoid the politics).