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What's happening with Twitch? I haven't heard anything.
The post title implies it were prevalent. Which it is not. Three platforms is not a lot overall.
The reasons between Twitter and Reddit are very different.
Twitter was fine. It's on a single Person - Elon Musk - who bought Twitter. All changes after it were through them.
Reddit became a big platform. Now it's run not by a small team but by a big company with management and CEO. Supposedly targeting going public, and probably focusing no longer on usefulness and the service but on profitability and growth. An inherently, broadly, and very different mindset and goals.
TBF twittter were preparing big layoffs and big changes, but didn't because Musk was going to throw money at the board. If he hadn't bought them, they would have also done something drastic
I suspect that twitter is going to persist for a while too. I was talking to my partner who is no fan of Elon and where he is taking the site, but she said that she doesn't know where she could build the kind of community she has found through Twitter. She gave mastodon the ole college try too, but the onboarding process there is somewhat complex, especially if you are trying to create a community similar to what you have on Twitter. So on Twitter she remains.
Yeah, Twitter already had critical mass. Many people built communities and networks and will likely remain for a long while still. It's so big many can leave and they'll still have many users.
Still, the platform did huge fuckups and changes driving users away. Doesn't mean it's dead. But certainly not doing well either.