Brendan Nyhan

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FYI my personal enthusiasm for giving Mastodon a shot (and making sure folks understand it enough to try it if they want to) has not changed my opinion on this. It isn't going to be the new Twitter because there won't be a new Twitter. 😢 https://theconversation.com/mass-migration-from-twitter-is-likely-to-be-an-uphill-battle-just-ask-ex-tumblr-users-193677

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/cfiesler/status/1589342691661615104

Nov 7, 2022 at 1:33pmMastodon Twitter Crossposter
Show threadBrendan NyhanNov 7, 2022
My guess is still that financial incentives eventually push Musk back toward conventional content moderation and people mostly return here because Mastodon is an inferior platform and never attains critical mass
Show threadNathan KalmoeNov 7, 2022
@brendannyhan I think Mastadon could pretty easily get the critical mass of Twitter-active scholars & perform most of the same useful functions, but it def won't reproduce the experience of big networked accounts engaged w/ journalists & public.
Show threadMelanie SillNov 7, 2022
@brendannyhan Yes it’s really an alternative — people who want Twitter should stay there. People who want to help build something better might have patience and adapt
Show threadJeff ShengNov 7, 2022
@brendannyhan there’s another view to this in that tech always changes and adapts along with people/society no matter how dominant it once was. AOL, Netscape, Yahoo, MySpace… are all great examples. We just have recency bias thinking that “Twitter” will exist indefinitely as the dominant player when history tells us the likelihood of that happening is quite slim. #TwitterMigration
Show threadJeff HaluskaNov 7, 2022

@jeffsheng @brendannyhan I have been around for a while and I don't even think Mastodon will dominate forever.

But one thing I have learned is that decentralized and open source platforms never truly die.