It's no secret that Elon Musk has absolutely tanked Twitter, so why haven't we all left? Despite the site becoming an apocalyptic hellscape, there's a surpri...
The argument is “there is no replacement” which is wrong.
Re Mastodon, he gets wrong what everyone reporting on Mastodon (and Lemmy) get wrong. “You have to choose and instance and that’s too hard.” When the actual answer is, just pick one. Install the Mastodon app, what’s the default? mastodon.social? Use that. Almost all instances are federated and if you pick a popular one you can see anything you’d realistically care about. If you want to move around later on, go for it. Once you’ve left birdsite you can make moves as needed.
Re Bluesky, it’s invite only, someday it won’t be. It can be part of the conversation but there are alternatives to move to now. Mastodon or…
Re Threads, is an option. It’s better than Twitter, but not by much. It’ll take time to mature but it’ll get better. I don’t think it’s worth moving to, but if the alternative is Twitter then Threads is miles ahead.
In general Twitter is the new Facebook, except more Nazis. No one uses Facebook. Yes some people do, but nothing important happens there. That’s Twitter now.
Hard disagree with Adam on this video.
The argument is “there is no replacement” which is wrong.
Re Mastodon, he gets wrong what everyone reporting on Mastodon (and Lemmy) get wrong. “You have to choose and instance and that’s too hard.” When the actual answer is, just pick one. Install the Mastodon app, what’s the default? mastodon.social? Use that. Almost all instances are federated and if you pick a popular one you can see anything you’d realistically care about. If you want to move around later on, go for it. Once you’ve left birdsite you can make moves as needed.
Re Bluesky, it’s invite only, someday it won’t be. It can be part of the conversation but there are alternatives to move to now. Mastodon or…
Re Threads, is an option. It’s better than Twitter, but not by much. It’ll take time to mature but it’ll get better. I don’t think it’s worth moving to, but if the alternative is Twitter then Threads is miles ahead.
In general Twitter is the new Facebook, except more Nazis. No one uses Facebook. Yes some people do, but nothing important happens there. That’s Twitter now.