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I always like when people say Twitter's lower reliability will drive people off the site. Reddit's been awful for more than a decade and people still use it.
Canceling third party clients and the antics, as well as the bad management of Musk is what people drives away from Twitter not the reliability.
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Twitter is a worse experience for me today than it was before Musk purchased the company. I don't need to even be aware of his antics for that to be true. Killing Tweetbot is the biggest issue for me. The official iOS app is awful so now I never check Twitter from my phone. Plus my timeline isn't as interesting because lots of people I follow simply stopped posting. Maybe they left due to Musk's antics, but it makes…
This anecdote is the answer to the lack of data that would support the user count decline of Twitter? I'm sorry to damage your ego but you're just a single data point and extrapolating how you see things to a non-quantifiable amount of other users isn't a reasonable argument.
And for the record, that anecdote is not a single data point. It is a single statement based off my observations of the hundreds of accounts I follow. My timeline is less active. That isn't because I use the site less. It is because cumulatively the accounts I follow are using the site less.
So, anyone want to talk about guitar pedals in here?
Anyway, I'm done with this movement. Time to flush and shower.
... we are supposed to be making Reddit-like posts in here... right?
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Has Twitter’s usage declined? I’ve seen a lot of opinions like this but they seem to be motivated reasoning and/or summarization of the views of a small echo chamber, but not based on actual data. I would guess most users of social media (and products/services for that matter) are not too concerned with antics of the owners.
Twitter is a worse experience for me today than it was before Musk purchased the company. I don't need to even be aware of his antics for that to be true. Killing Tweetbot is the biggest issue for me. The official iOS app is awful so now I never check Twitter from my phone. Plus my timeline isn't as interesting because lots of people I follow simply stopped posting. Maybe they left due to Musk's antics, but it makes…
I'm using the site more now. Japanese twitter feels a lot more natural and nicer than it did pre-Musk.
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> The only thing I do more than Reddit is sleep No offense, but... you okay? How do you take care of your brain while doing something like that? It's hard for me to tear myself away fully from social media (behold this comment), but every time I do, I notice how my brain seems to just... work better.
If you were me, you may not consider yourself to be ok. To give a simple explanation: I'm an extreme loner. Reddit is my human connection. I've been doing it for many years. I don't like it or dislike it, it just is. I'm content. Thanks for your concern.
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It has actually gotten a lot better. Incremental progress for a few years and we're in a fairly good place. This is highly unusual.
> It has actually gotten a lot better. Come on, almost every evening you get error pages. Yes they don't last more than a few refreshes, but it's simply ridiculous for a site as prominent as Reddit.
The past couple days have been the first error messages in years.
It used to be monthly
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It is actually hilarious. People would rather wait for Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Twitter, etc to get back online than to sign up to another alternative social network. It means that the network effect is still present on the site such that it is not worth it for existing users to migrate and start from zero again to a lesser known platform with low discoverability or little to no activity. Especially one with a si…
Is there a service that matches my curated list of subjects as well as Reddit does?
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It is actually hilarious. People would rather wait for Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Twitter, etc to get back online than to sign up to another alternative social network. It means that the network effect is still present on the site such that it is not worth it for existing users to migrate and start from zero again to a lesser known platform with low discoverability or little to no activity. Especially one with a si…
Mastodon has two big problems. It's not just the network effect but also educating the users on how to use a federated social network. It's easy with a technical background to overestimate how easily people will understand that, let alone care about it. Here's mainstream news trying to get people onto Mastodon, and even this is in the "tech" section: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/mastodon-social-media-twitter-r...
That's entirely a tech problem, rather than a people problem
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Reddit used to go down at least once a week. It's been at an all time high for availability over the last few years.
> It's been at an all time high for availability over the last few years. They eventually managed to ban enough subreddits/users to reach a state of reliablity...
Are you proposing that subreddits full of slurs are harder for the server to return as a byte-string?
> We've implemented our fix and are slowly allowing things to ramp back up. We're not yet out of the woods. How do you draw a banana? Asking for a friend. Posted 18 minutes ago. Mar 14, 2023 - 16:18 PDT https://www.redditstatus.com/incidents/1xslswydctkp