Great news — social media is falling apart
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Great news — social media is falling apart::I don't know where to post: there are too many social platforms, and the old giants are dying. The age of social media is splintering.
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I wished they mentioned Lemmy, but at least they are talking about Mastodon. I don't understand why more media outlets aren't switching away from Twitter, given how brazen Elon is with his enshittification.
EDIT: Away from Twitter, not to Twitter.
Inertia and that it still has a large userbase. The media outlets and corporations won't leave until something causes a mass exodus -- like Twitter/X becoming subscription only.
Yeah, seeing a lot of places capitulating, replacing the Twitter bird with an X. Though the BBC has been experimenting with Mastodon for a few months, lately...
Along with MSNBC, ProPublica, The Intercept, Voice of America, The Mirror, Rolling Stone, Al Jazeera, and a bunch of others.
The number of users is two orders of magnitude smaller for Mastodon...
Use both Mastodon and Twitter, and then jump ship from Twitter once the time is right. Once Twitter is completely gated by a paywall, the whole thing will just collapse.
Elon's enshittification of Twitter would be a reason to switch away from, not to, Twitter.
Part of the reason could be that when there was a large wave of people switching, including journalists on their own instance, that instance promptly got blocked by a large percentage of the fediverse based on some unclear moral grounds.