I sincerely cannot understand why otherwise normal and thoughtful people/organizations continue to patronize X/Twitter. I literally quit my job as an exec at Twitter when it became clear Musk would take over the company, and the level of ineptitude and noxiousness today has dramatically exceeded what I thought would have been possible at the time.

@stevetex

People and organizations tend to look for signals that others like them are leaving. If those signals get loud enough, you get network effects. But few want to be "first" in their group, so groups stick around.

I've seen the most sustained migration off X in Germany, which is probably no surprise. (See https://bit.ly/eXit where I'm tracking major departures.)

bit.ly/eXit — Organizations and individuals who have left X (and where they've gone)

Google Docs

@stevetex

The diversion of attention towards Threads and BlueSky doesn't help, of course. Fedi has quickly acquired a reputation as "too difficult", BlueSky is Diet Twitter, and Threads is just Mark Zuckerberg opening his arms and saying "welcome home".

The best we can do is keep building fedi and onboarding folks.

@eloquence @stevetex I think "too difficult to find people" it's a thing it could be improved and it's critical for a successful onboarding.