Marco ArmentNov 28, 2022

VERY good read about the path Twitter is now on. It's not "our" favorite bar anymore.

Highly recommended:

https://tracks.ranea.org/post/701656528790470656/twitter-failure-modes-and-your-favorite-bar

Twitter, failure modes, and your favorite bar

So I’ve been seeing arguments for why, no, you should really stay on Twitter, because of the problems with anything vying to replace it. Most circle around what tech people might dub failure modes in...

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Show threadJohn ConwayNov 28, 2022
@marcoarment it’s a good article, but I think it overestimates how much/many people actually liked Twitter. I was there because I pretty much had to be for my work, and it was better than Facebook/Instagram. It’s possible that the biggest driver still keeping creators there is simply scale.
Show threadMichael Bishop
@john I agree. I think people’s experiences of twitter vary widely depending on follower/following ratio. I also sense that the people who seem most resistant to Mastodon have large followings on twitter.
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Show threadJohn ConwayNov 28, 2022

@mbishop I had 10k. I actually liked it less the more followers I had (not that I didn't like the internet points!). There seems to be a tech community that got on there really early and loved it. Then a few other groups that really seemed to jive with it.

But I suspect there are a lot of us who always felt like it was trying to to have a conversation in the middle of a highway.