So fucking happy I deleted twitter. At this point it's just a horse race to see which site dies faster reddit or twitter.
this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2023
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Stop kidding yourselves.. Reddit isn't dying. It's growing.
0.5% of users turned to Lemmy while the rest bent over.
But regardless, given all the media hype around the protests, Reddit DID take a hit to its reputation overall. I'm sure there is a not insignificant number of people still on Reddit who would jump ship were an acceptable alternative available to take its place. I still believe that as Lemmy grows, more content gets created, and the various UIs and Apps used to access increases, people will slowly move over. Spez is looking to monetize the fuck out of Reddit too, so all corporate social media sites are now heading towards some sort of paid model. I don't know about you, but I don't know many people willing to pay for access to a shitty social media site, be it twitter or reddit.
No, I don't think there is a "not insignificant" number of people who would jump ship. We're literally just a few nerds who dislike the monolithic corporate structure and care about privacy. Stop pretending the whole world is in the same boat. It's turning into a weird tinfoil conspiracy.
It's fine that we like it here, and I'm glad that we have an alternative, but people need to wake up and realize this isn't some huge activist movement where we're pwning "the man". They don't give two shits about these dumbass protests. They will do whatever necessary to continue growing and earning money. So stop giving a shit about them, stop talking about reddit, and just be happy users have the power with Lemmy.
I don't care about privacy or centralization, I just wanted Boost and they decided to kill that.
Boost for Lemmy is coming though
I got my sync and I don't mind the computer nerd vibe on lemmy; reddit for a long time was that, far before subreddits were a thing. TBH I'm actually enjoying reading about hexbears and lemmygrad and .ml, the whole maga vs libs thing was getting old and it's fun to mix things up and see how truly different the radical left is from mainstream politics. Federation gives me true freedom to censor what I see or explore what I want.
Hope they enjoy their ads :)
Not to mention their deliberately inferior mobile experience
I can't believe some people actually prefer using the official app...
You can't easily beat volume. I think people like to compare this to Digg's death, but the Internet was much smaller back then and how many normal people even knew about Digg?
I was never really on Digg, even though I was on the Internet since the early 00's, but yeah, everything dies eventually.
Can't think of anything aside from some obscure message boards that still exist today.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
X, the social network formally known as Twitter, appears to be finally following through on its promise to make TweetDeck a paid service.
Many users on X, including social media consultant Matt Navarra, say that they’re seeing a sales page for X Premium (the subscription formerly Twitter Blue) when they try to load up TweetDeck, which is technically now called XPro.
A few of us at The Verge haven’t run into the block yet, but given how many people are saying that they can’t access XPro unless they pay, we’re guessing it’s only a matter of time.
It said at the time that the transition would happen “in 30 days,” so the company missed its own deadline by just a bit.
Under owner Elon Musk, X has tried to make X Premium a more enticing subscription with additions like longer posts, formatting, ad revenue sharing, and higher rankings in conversations and search — now, the company is hoping that access to XPro is worth paying for a blue checkmark.
TweetDeck was one of the most popular third party apps for accessing Twitter until the company acquired it in 2011.
I'm a bot and I'm open source!
Too bad (for them) the newer version of Tweetdeck was ✨worse✨ than the old one.
I wish news outlets would just refuse to call it X and continue to call it Twitter. They're giving the stupid idea legitimacy and Musk doesn't need or deserve that.
Official news outlets are sort of forced to call it by its official name. I feel like Western society has sort of agreed to that general rule.
XPro? Surprised its not xDeck.
In fact, I won't be surprised if there's squatters right now buying all the domains like x"word"
xDeck.. surely