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Are you kidding? Twitter has limits on how much you can read now. It's useless for me.
I don't have a twitter account. Do you regularly hit the 1,000 tweet view limit? That's over 83 tweets an hour, for 12 hours.
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> It’s becoming increasingly obvious that Twitter isn’t going to be that place with each new chaos monkey attack from Musk, but what the successor place is going to be remains to be seen. First, Mastodon was going to be the new place. It wasn't. Then Threads came along and again everyone said it would be the death knell for Twitter. It wasn't. My takeaway would be quite the opposite. While everything that comes along…
Maybe give threads more than 3 weeks before declaring it hasn't dethroned Twitter.
Twitter can go away without being replaced by a singular entity.
I would rather see Mastodon and federated services succeed, but it is not the most user friendly. Then again, just because something is big doesn't mean it's the best.
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It took a while for people to start linking to Twitter (sorry, X). I'd give it a bit. You can link to stuff though: https://www.threads.net/@carnage4life/post/CvPrxHdr4Y2/?igsh...
Interesting that even without the ability to really use it on the web, Threads already has a better anonymous-user web view than Twitter. Since the recent changes, on Twitter you can't see replies if you're linked to a tweet while not logged in, and you don't even have any indicator that replies exist and that you could see them with an account. The whole implementation of the changes in that area is a real baffler.
Seriously dude. It takes more effort to break the web than just use it.
To me that marked it as doomed from the start. Most people use Twitter to follow specific niches or topic areas, not as a general conversational platform. If I follow even one account that's posting low quality content at any sort of frequency, it seriously degrades the experience.
It's really a headscratcher how they launched without that. I guess the idea is that ad placing is easier if you have an algorithmic feed instead?
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Last year Mastodon went through a hype cycle. Everyone was declaring Twitter over. You had people stating they were leaving for good, dual-posting, etc. Funnily enough many of those same people are back on Twitter today with little mention of Mastodon. It peaked in November and then went into decline. As people leave, the value of the network goes down so even more people leave. Musk's antics might prop it up every o…
It’s so funny to me watching everyone debate about what is or isn’t going to be the next ultimate single massive platform. I, and many Fediverse people, are on the Fedi explicitly hoping it isn’t in that list. Mastodon is a success to me because of the thousands of people on it and that I interact with, and that it is precisely not containing the masses. So many people think we need another Reddit and Twitter. Many o…