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STOP USING TWITTER. It's a stinking, steaming storm drain with a rich guy's RV speeding away from it.
I can't believe people still need to be told this.
And the public policy director of Threads wrote a chapter of project 2024, so one would have to be pretty ignorant to consider that an alternative as well.
At least Mastodon is genuinely great. I guess I'm in a minority that never liked Twitter (despite having an account since 2008), but I do enjoy Mastodon a lot these days.
Fuck Instagram
Fuck Threads
Fuck Facebook
Fuck Meta
In addition to every other known problem, Meta treats artists like absolute shit. Yet we're forced to use it because no other platform has as many people. It's hell.
I mean, this is the wrong place to preach.
I'm pretty sure the fediverse is an echo chamber against all the corporate social media, whilst the corporate social media is an echo chamber for it.
We all keep saying things like fuck X but here in the fediverse we're not giving anyone any info they didn't already know.
What too much of the fediverse needs as a takeaway, though, is when those certain groups start whining about changing the system. Like dude, we can't even get our closest people to switch from WhatsApp to signal. How are we gonna change the system?
Yeah, for sure. I'm just hear preaching to the choir, and the corporate alternatives are too much of a shit show for me to waste my time and talk to people about it where it might actually have an effect.
At least we're over here creating a viable alternative. And while monthly active users in Fedidb is in a steady decline, my enjoyment of these platforms is increasing every month. So in that sense I'm not overly concerned - I'm just a bit frustrated by how fascism doesn't seem to be a deal breaker for as many people as I thought.
Yeah I spend most my time on Lemmy in the fediverse now, it's definitely preaching to the choir. Someone big on Twitter needs to adopt the fediverse to make change, but tbh everything about mastodon/fediverse/Lemmy is really confusing to the average person. I'm pretty tech literate and it took me a while to figure out/set up my fediverse experience to be close to Reddit.
That's not helpful. Twitter being a dumpster fire has exactly nothing to do with whether things that take place there are newsworthy.
The fact that the top-voted response to a news story is someone berating us for our presumed Twitter usage is one of the really fucking annoying things about Lemmy. It's like if the top comment on every thread about the Ukraine war was "STOP JOINING THE RUSSIAN ARMY!"
I don't think OP is telling us, specifically, to stop using Twitter. It's more of a "Why are people still using Twitter?"
I'm a white dude for Harris. These numbskulls wouldn't get a penny from me over this very obvious poor choice.
Sad
In some countries, it's unfortunately the main source of customer interaction. In Japan, it's been trending more towards Instagram lately, but that's basically just as bad. Still, it's often the only way to know if a business.is open that day, hours, etc. at least it's not Facebook anymore.
How to get average Japanese to adopt something like Mastodon is a whole other thing.
Edit: mobile hates me (and spelling, apparently).
The largest Mastodon instance on Earth is Pawoo...
But that has nothing to do with the average japanese person nor business.
MissKey? (or one of its forks?)
FediDB