Dare ObasanjoDec 21, 2022

Quick thoughts on Mastodon as a Twitter replacement, it isn’t. It’s missing too many features and too many communities.

However it is an existence proof that millions of Twitter users are open to exploring an alternative.

It means a more complete alternative can grow organically and if it isn’t shy about paying for customer acquisition like TikTok did, could possibly take its place.

https://boingboing.net/2019/08/07/10000-censors.html

Tiktok is valued at $75b, is spending $3m/day on US advertising, and in China, it has been turned into a state propaganda vehicle | Boing Boing

It’s been a year since Chinese social media giant Bytedance relaunched its super-popular app Musica.ly as Tiktok; the company is now valued at $75b, and in the USA it has become a serious cha…

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@carnage4life you are mixing up three quite different social networks - Twitter, a niche network whose strength is being mostly short-text+links, Tiktok, which is a completely diferent beast (and with completely different audience), and Mastodon/Fediverse that is even more niche and has no inclination of being "customer acquired".
Dec 21, 2022 at 9:56pmWeb