Turns out forcing people to use Twitter less makes people use Twitter less, what a discovery!
But have you considered paying $8 a month to use features that used to be free and also associate yourself with far right?
If you’re still on Twitter, you’re part of the problem. I don’t care about your excuses.
Well look at me, I’m part of the problem.
Good! Hope to see the same stories about Reddit and other major social media platforms that have taken steps to prioritize profit over the community.
The users are your golden apple. Abuse them, the apple turns sour.
I don’t know if it’s just me, but I’m barely using reddit/twitter and now I spend most of my online time on Lemmy/Mastodon.
Same here but i’m afraid we’re not really in the majority.
We never will - we live in the TikTok generation
ugh don’t remind me… i get your point but i still wish for the Fediverse to become more accessible
btw there is a Tiktok clone for the fediverse called Goldfish, although i haven’t tried it lol
also, nice username
Its entirely possible tiktok will be banned by the feds here in the US sooner or later which will most likely nuke a large chunk of anglosphere content. So we may see a shift away from it sooner or later.
Ribbit
reminds me of the new reddit video player. ew.
That’s fine. The user base doesn’t need to be in the nine or ten figures to have a community that has decent activity. Even with the thousands activity has been impressive, and that’s with all this fragmentation across instances too.
The fragmentation doesn’t really matter though, as we can all read and participate in the same threads :)
Yep hi programing.dev instance!
Yeah, I’m feeling this is more on Meta having excelent timing with Threads unfortunately
Rather than excellent timing, I would bet that Meta saw the writing on the wall the moment Twitter started doing cuestionable things under Elon. I don’t think they would’ve launched Threads to compete against pre-Elon Twitter.
Also, albeit small in overall users, there’s been a constant exodus of users ever since Elon took over, so they are trying to capitalize on that.
No social network dies over night, but with Threads racing to become the mainstream text-based social media, Twitter will be slowly becoming irrelevant, until it dies.
Edit: Grammar
I was curious about this. Turns out meta started talking about a Twitter competitor app in November, and started developing it in January.
Threads is a direct response to Musk buying Twitter.
We too are part of the majority. This isnt about quantity but, quality. x
+1 to this. I’ve had way more insightful conversations on the Fediverse—with less followers/recognition/brand—than on any centralized platform.
Love the discourse. Makes me think, allows me to learn, consider new perspectives, etc.
It doesn’t take much to panic these idiots. Even a 10% drop means someone has to answer for it
I thought the proverb was: cook a golden goose and you’ll eat for a day. Teach the golden goose to lay eggs and you’ll eat for a lifetime.
Gold is edible btw. Or at least inedible and non-toxic. It passes through without chemically reacting.
Give a man a fire, you’ll keep him warm for a night. Light a man on fire, you’ll keep him warm for the rest of his life.
Removed by mod
We should have that “your joke but worse” community here.
Proverbial fish: am I a joke to you?
Mine was just made up on the fly. Been playing Zelda Tears of the Kingdom lately and had to round up some golden apples for something, lol
The fact that people who have paid get to have their replies appear first means that you see the people with the worst opinions (people who are fine with giving Musk money) most of the time, just makes it a very un-fun experience.
That’s why I left. That’s all I see on replies
Here’s the graph, as posted by CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince:
Wonder how much of it is because of Threads and how much of it is from making the site inaccessible without accounts and the rate limit.
Hard to tell. It’s been in decline since January though, so some of it is just Twitter being a place people want to be less and less.
They removed the need for an account to view tweets not long after they implemented it.
As far as I know the rate limit is still in effect though.
I wonder, how many schools could you build for $44billion?
A random online estimator told me about 27m for a high school in the US. So like 1466 if you round that up to 30m for easier math.
They built a new elementary school down the road a few years ago. It cost $63 million, so about 700 of those.
Might make sense. Cost seems to be 250-800 per square foot depending on construction method and quality.
The example I looked at was for a two story 130,000 sqft I think. But some districts shovel all students into one mega school, so they would be huge and much more expensive.
Good news everyone!
On a side note: Why is this image (from Threads, don’t know the version accessible on Twitter, as it’s not accessible to me) a JPEG, and a very much compressed one, too? You see non-tech people sharing screenshot JPEGs all the time, but they are usually in okay quality and only degrade when shared and edited a lot. This one is basically unreadable from the beginning, and it’s posted by a guy who studied computer science and leads a leading tech company since 14 years. Or is it really Threads transcoding and downgrading images so much?
In the meantime I remembered the existence of Nitter (and that it still works!), and there the screenshot is a JPEG, too, but in much better quality (https://nitter.net/pic/orig/media%2FF0mvPmYaYAEUxU9.jpg). So it seems like, yes, the tech CEO publicly posts graph images as JPEG, but he does it in good quality, and it’s the photo sharing community’s microblogging service that kills the image uploads there by compressing them to death.
EDIT: In the next meantime, Threads itself seems to be dead, at least the embeeded tweet (or thread, or whatever they call it) in the Verge article has been replaced by a “View on Threads” button which leads me to an absolutely blank page.
To the surprise of no one besides Musk, probably
I’m here for the schadenfreude, but it’s horrible PR for Cloudflare to post the traffic graph of one of their customers tanking. And their CEO doing it, no less.
It’s not a graph of their protection product(s), it’s a graph from their DNS-service.
They don’t get the Data from Twitter, they get it from the UsersI’m not sure Twitter is a Cloudflare customer. There’s no Cloudflare infrastructure referenced by the DNS entries for twitter.com.
DNS Queries don’t care about your silly PR. DNS is king.
It’s free widespread advertisement for cloudflare, we’re even talking about them right now
If I were Akamai, I’d be sure that my sales team knew to bring it up casually in conversation with every customer. Can’t buy trust, have to earn it, and you can squander it all so easily.
