• Credibly_Human@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Not even close. It simply has too much critical mass.

    Twitter was taken over by a white south african nazi and grifter with delicate sensibilities and people are still using it like nothing has happened.

    Reddit would have to enshitify even more, and believe me they are trying.

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      21 hours ago

      Didn’t people leave it for BlueSky? I can’t figure out how to use BlueSky… could never get Twitter to work either, maybe it’s too Gen Z for my Millenial ass?

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        21 hours ago

        Didn’t people leave it for BlueSky?

        A small number of people yes, but most influencers remain on Twitter or use both.

        I should also point out that BlueSky is backed by crypto bros and they’ve never had any intentions of improving anything the way the people who want to move moved things.

        They ran on the idea of decentralization but ultimately BlueSky is, in practice, completely centralized and its not possible to decentralize it. You can run your own instance, but that would just be a separate centralized instance as opposed to any sort of meaningful federation.

        I can’t figure out how to use BlueSky… could never get Twitter to work either, maybe it’s too Gen Z for my Millenial ass?

        I hate to say it but… that has nothing to do with age, because there are old people on either. Its just a microblog platform like any other microblog platform.

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        3 days ago

        It doesn’t need to. This is about the relevance of the platform, and it remains highly relevant.

        Social media companies exist to control what the public thinks the public thinks (generally). They don’t care nearly as much about profitability, and its obvious that musk more than others felt this way, especially with getting exactly what he wanted politically.