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I've never been on twitter, but I'm not that surprised so many of us here were driving engagement.

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[–] PotentiallyApricots@beehaw.org 36 points 7 months ago (1 children)

People haven't adjusted yet to the reality that online social ecosystems matter, they affect so much in the real world. Decimating multiple online spaces in such a short time has consequences and i hate that a handful of random guys with no stake in any of it except money get to make decisions like that.

[–] koper@feddit.nl 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Such is the fate of hypercentralized spaces. The fediverse fixes this.

[–] PotentiallyApricots@beehaw.org 6 points 6 months ago

Hopefully the next places will be more durable. It is still SAD and damaging when vibrant communities get destroyed though. I am more lamenting that.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

Not really, profiles cannot easily migrate and they lose their connections in the process

[–] OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Surely this could be good, right?

If celebrities need to be accessible to their biggest fans, maybe it would induce them to leave the birdsite? And if this is as big a migration as the article suggests, it has the potential to snowball in network effects, giving other influential users one less reason to feel chained to a dumpster fire.

[–] elfpie@beehaw.org 3 points 6 months ago

I thought the same. Now plataforms have a target audience to focus. The accounts move, the artists have to follow, the rest has a reason to move as well.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 17 points 7 months ago

The suspension could have wide-reaching effects on pop culture globally.

Damn, real shame that.

Oh well.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The Great Shopping Mall of Alexandria

[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 4 points 6 months ago

The Hanging Dumpsters of Babble-on

[–] Templa@beehaw.org 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Well, if they are smart they will just migrate to Bluesky.

I gave up on trying to get people to Mastodon.

Yeah it seems like most Brazilian twitter users have gone to bluesky. I'm glad that so few went to threads actually.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 7 months ago (4 children)

What's the problem? They're just not sure which instance to go with?

[–] Virkkunen@fedia.io 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The problem is having instances. If you tell the average Joe to join Mastodon and they see there's 10 different links for Mastodon they'll just give up and move on, it's too much complicated effort for them.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

this is such a nonsense argument, people navigate email just fine despite every single platform sending emails from their own domain.

[–] Virkkunen@fedia.io 5 points 6 months ago

Sure but you have to remember people are not tech savvy at all. They're used to email, but they do not see the correlation with the fediverse. Try explaining that to the average Joe and see where that leads you.

[–] Templa@beehaw.org 3 points 6 months ago

It sounds like nonsense to you but it is the reality. The medium person don't bother and just want a place where you create an account and that's it.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I feel like this should be surmountable. At worst, you skip the whole concept of federation and just tell them exactly where to sign up.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

and this is why i get so tired of people saying it's bad to have a big instance like mastodon.social, like bro do you fucking want the platform to be successful or not? it seems like people just want a small isolated place to circlejerk each other rather than something globally useful.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yeah, I don't get that. Federation is the option to have a hyper-custom server that does weird things, or to make your own server with blackjack and hookers if you don't like your current one, without losing access to community and content. Most people aren't nerds, though, so if you want plag-and-play an instance like lemmy.world is great.

If you want a small bubble you actually don't want federation.

[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

"The internet is the blue 'e' swirl thing on my computer's home screen."

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Okay, so I'm going to tell you where the new Twitter is in the blue swirly.

I know, I know, easier said than done to actually guide them through, but if they're at that level it's just a different setting on the magic box.

[–] zygo_histo_morpheus@programming.dev 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think there's a cultural difference too. Bluesky is much closer to (a subsection of) twitter culture pre-musk than anything else. Weather you think that's good or bad is a matter of taste but it is probably the easiest thing to get people who like pre-musk twitter to switch to.

And the fact that bluesky has many features mastodon does not. Namely, an algorithm.

It's the instances as well as the fact that there's no algorithm. You have to make your own feed. This means most people leave because there's nothing keeping them engaged like other social media.

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 8 points 7 months ago

Like the “Come to Brazil!” comments on every music video or concert on youtube.

[–] Artyn@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago

Why are they all Brazilian?

Hey I’ve had a couple chats with Taylor. She’s real nice. Cool to see her posted on lemmy.