Oh, the ratio
The whole “competition” on social networking is why the internet sucks
I see the problem as there is too many 'normies' on the internet so things have devolved into catering to the lowest common denominator resulting in basic sites, simplistic everything and copy/paste designs.
Things are always better before the mass of humans flood to use it. This was true for vacations, vehicles, computers, internet, cellphones etc..
As someone who has never used twitter what di you mean?
I never fully got it as a twitter user, but it has something to do with the ratio of likes I believe. The one person has hundreds where the other has 10s of thousands.
And they always respond with something like “I only bought it because I had money to waste”. Bullshit, you wanted the attention.
As someone who literally shits gold, not even I pay for twitter! (It's a real condition I swear)
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They must have an incredible amount of tech debt and partner arrangements at the code level, it's probably impossible to change their URL without months of preparation and planning (or, let's say years, at current skeleton staffing). It's hilarious.
The rule surrounding blocking usernames is so dumb and short-sighted. You can literally find these people just by searching for the tweets.
It’s slightly harder and requires too much brain capacity for the average dumbass harasser.
This. It's funny but if something takes slightly more effort, we are inclined to not do that thing.
I just uninstalled twitter.
Really happy that I made the move to Bluesky. Really gives me a similar vibe to when I switched from reddit to lemmy. Everything's smaller, people are nice, not a lot of drama.. at least for now. We'll see how things change when the beta ends and more people start coming there.
I got my invite code yesterday. There’s a LOT of furries and not a lot of stuff I’m interested in.
Haha yeah, the furries seem to love it for some reason. I don't know about other countries, but it feels like at least the core of my German bubble collectively moved there over the last couple of weeks. If you're looking for specific topics, celebrities or experts, it will definitely take a lot of time to build a new network that can compete with Twitter. Had high hopes in Mastodon for a while, everyone who was fed up with Elon moved there for like two weeks, and then it all fell apart.
Just curious, why not mastodon?
There's ready a lot of small servers with niche local communities, and you even have the option to see lemmy communities and DM people on lemmy servers.
Bluesky isn't on the Fediverse, right?
I tried. Mastodon attracts a pretty specific crowd in my experience though. Usually people with at least a certain interest in tech topics and the whole mood just felt a bit serious. I don't have high hopes for it to become mainstream enough to really be a serious competitor, because the barrier to entry literally has to be insanely low for that, for a lot of people.
I have two accounts on Twitter, one for work where I follow Englisch speaking people around my specific tech niche for work, some of those might be on Mastodon but not enough to make the move yet. And on my private account I basically have a purely German crowd that's been 50% random shitposting and chatting with each other and 50% political discourse. All of those decided to move to Bluesky and to cut the political discussions for a while. Now we're all just enjoying the few months of peace over there :-)
I haven't updated the Twitter app on my Android since the icon change, and I refuse to let it update. Still works fine.
I learned something new today! I didn't know you could change apps on Android and now I feel a bit silly.
This is shortcuts on iOS, it has a few limitations like no notification badges
No notifications, and a banner popover when you run it, which some people will find annoying
It’s an easy way to get started with your first shortcut though!
If don’t want those limitations, and are on iOS 16.1.2 or earlier, you can use cowabunga
You can always install an earlier .APK. Find, download, open. And hope it wasn't something someone riddled with malware.
Don’t feel silly!
Is this loss?
They're both crazy
I keep Twitter installed because Musk will sell it eventually. Though I was never a fan. But Twitter helpful when there are sirens nearby.
I don't know if he'll find anyone gullible enough to buy it. At least not until after bankruptcy. Who would buy that company that doesn't make a profit and has that much debt? Only an idiot like Musk would do that.
Donald F. Trump.
There’s nothing wrong with using Twitter as a tool to keep yourself safe, heck it’s owner is a tool albeit not a useful one but a tool nonetheless.
