ijeffOne year after being bought for $44 billion, X is worth $19 billion
iHUNTcriminalsI mean even Twitter sucked. I don’t get that platform. I just signed up for mastodon and am not sure I’m feeling that either.
I feel like these Twitter-style sites are just …like… Keyboard warriors. It’s just smug post after smug post.
AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦Honestly the format is good for stuff like quick business headlines and rumors that you could use as an input to your trading (basically free “squawk”, given that professional squawk services cost a lot). It’s also good to quickly spread the word during protests or similar.
But I agree that all of that is still offset with a huge amount of smugness and “ratio” competitions.
PeachManYeah that’s a fair summary. It’s brands doing announcements and ads, and people being assholes. Why would I be interested in either?
finthechatIn its most ideal form, a microblog style site could literally provide an online version of a collective consciousness of society. It would be a live feed of normal people's thoughts.
Except in reality it's porn, smug posting, corporate advertising, vitriol, and propaganda all fueled by algorithms written to keep mofos scrolling.
It was good for two things: on the ground news, and speaking directly to businesses to resolve customer complaints.
Yeah. I pretty much only used Twitter for live event updates.
helenslunchspeaking directly to businesses to resolve customer complaints.
It really pisses me off that companies respond to Twitter posts but will ignore tickets and emails in their own support system.
You don’t get advertising or algorithmic crap on Mastodon, and they have reasonably reliable filters to hide most porn I think
oce 🐆Would the collective consciousness actually be interesting to read?
I'm with you. Lots of randoms giving their opinions on something that other randoms can show their support for? Huh... alright, I guess.
doublejay1999Any social media that involves Followers are destined to be bin fires.
I tried mastodon, some of it is sweet, but eventually you voice a different opinion to someone with lots of followers, and get attacked by the tribe.
All depends on who you follow. If you follow people who make stuff (art, software, etc) then you’ll find your feed a lot more upbeat.
Still, on another platform (such as Lemmy) they could make more meaningful posts.
I think the whole point is that it gives media companies something to pretend is “news,” and everyone else something to be pretend-outraged over. Full stop.