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Great news — social media is falling apart (www.businessinsider.com)

submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Great news — social media is falling apart::I don't know where to post: there are too many social platforms, and the old giants are dying. The age of social media is splintering.

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[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 98 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I wished they mentioned Lemmy, but at least they are talking about Mastodon. I don't understand why more media outlets aren't switching away from Twitter, given how brazen Elon is with his enshittification.

EDIT: Away from Twitter, not to Twitter.

[–] Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Inertia and that it still has a large userbase. The media outlets and corporations won't leave until something causes a mass exodus -- like Twitter/X becoming subscription only.

[–] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, seeing a lot of places capitulating, replacing the Twitter bird with an X. Though the BBC has been experimenting with Mastodon for a few months, lately...

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Along with MSNBC, ProPublica, The Intercept, Voice of America, The Mirror, Rolling Stone, Al Jazeera, and a bunch of others.

[–] mint_tamas@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Part of the reason could be that when there was a large wave of people switching, including journalists on their own instance, that instance promptly got blocked by a large percentage of the fediverse based on some unclear moral grounds.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The number of users is two orders of magnitude smaller for Mastodon...

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

Use both Mastodon and Twitter, and then jump ship from Twitter once the time is right. Once Twitter is completely gated by a paywall, the whole thing will just collapse.

[–] wazoobonkerbrain@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I don't understand why more media outlets aren't switching to Twitter, given how brazen Elon is with his enshittification.

Elon's enshittification of Twitter would be a reason to switch away from, not to, Twitter.