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Toadvark ,
@Toadvark@mander.xyz avatar

For years now I’ve done what I can to encourage use of other sites, but the fact remains that my specific community of friends and peers (many of whom have known one-another for over two decades now) have used twitter as a stomping ground since 2008 or so. It’s extremely difficult to establish that sort of intersection elsewhere, and it gets particularly ugly when folks’ livelihood and income are tied into the matter.

Having the main hub for communities torn apart because of one fool’s antics really, really sucks, and then I’m/we’re called garbage on the sites we try to establish on, for clinging to that lifeline. It’s all a frustrating feedback loop.

gunnm ,

You all hate X but many still refuse to use Mastodon.

phillycodehound OP ,
@phillycodehound@geddit.social avatar

I manage a freaking instance. LOL

gunnm ,

How is all Mastodon doing vs X?. I also use Mastodon btw.

LillianVS ,
@LillianVS@lemmy.world avatar

Some people still need it for local news and alerts, I have no issue with this the platforms like mastodon are not always good for this.

Especially since there is no way to find local news based on location

I hate twitter and have been staying away since 2020. (It was terrible for my MH) but even threads has it’s issues. (Not talking about privacy. If you’re using any large corporate product like apple/Microsoft/Google/Samsung you are being tracked anyway) more issues with the discoverability. You have no way of searching on threads it’s missing a lot of really important features. You can with mastodon, but again. Local news is not trending.

Then there is hive which is also hard to discover things on… And minds is a hornets nest I am not touching that.

I am happy there are more competitors than ever for twitter but they still fall short of much needed features

ezmack ,

Yeah local stuff keeps me there. Even that’s getting worse, every local station/paper has 5-10 bots replying to every post with completely off topic right-wing stuff.

It’s still a good place to follow news. Shits getting bad though. Ads are way more intrusive than they used to be and it’s like 90% credit card scams or explicit white power stuff

popemichael ,
@popemichael@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

A high lead count in water would explain some things

SapienSRC ,
@SapienSRC@lemmy.world avatar

I have a friend that complains constantly about Twitter, how its going downhill and he doesn’t agree with what their doing and all that. Yet, he insists on using it everyday. I’ve suggested Mastodon and he said that “everyone is on Twitter” and then complains about it. Couldn’t believe that I deleted my Twitter account without a second thought.

People are strange.

AnonStoleMyPants ,

I mean, it is not that hard of a thought process? Considering how many left reddit but have been complaining about it for years. As far as they were considering (including me), there was no better alternative. Your friend probably thinks the same. If the people he follows would go to Mastodon, they would follow. But as long as this people don’t, then there isn’t enough content there to be a viable alternative for them.

phillycodehound OP ,
@phillycodehound@geddit.social avatar

Yea people are strange.

gaybear ,

Addiction.

kemsat ,

Also people that keep talking about him.

NicoCharrua ,
@NicoCharrua@lemmy.ca avatar

If anyone wants to leave Twitter, but there’s still people that you want to see, I recommend Squawker. You can’t interact or post, but you can follow people and you don’t need an account.

Venomnik0 ,
@Venomnik0@lemmy.world avatar

If you’re on desktop also nitter is great as well.

NukeminHerttua ,
@NukeminHerttua@sopuli.xyz avatar

Leaving Twitter was easy.

Just log out once and since you can’t even read embedded tweets without being logged in, you are practically isolated from the whole platform. If you last a few days, you realize that you’re not really missing anything…

SJ0 ,

A lot of people are pure addicts.

They’ve been threatening to leave for 8 months. They disable their account, then a week later they’re right back on it.

Over the years it’s actually pretty sad, a lot of really talented people got hooked and stopped making good content because they’re too busy tilting at windmills on Twitter.

stagen ,
@stagen@feddit.dk avatar

I’ve been considering this for a while now. Yes, Musk’s antics are only souring everything about Twitter, but the place is also a font of information that search indexes use. I’ve used Twitter a lot and I don’t want to see the information I’ve shared there to go away. If I do remove my Twitter account, my tweets will only be available through sites like the internet archive.

Zrybew ,

People who talk about it, as well.

xtremeownage ,

Knock on wood, I never really got into twitter.

So- the twitter drama, is just interesting to read about these days…

On the sad side, I did get into reddit. And spez is fucking it up worse then musk is doing to twitter.

Fedizen ,

people who stay on Twitter are little worms that love being stepped on.

“Step on me daddy Musk” -average twitter “X” user today

spiderkle ,
@spiderkle@lemmy.ca avatar

It’s been a bit of a ghost-town since Musk anyways. Isn’t it called “X” now because that will get investors excited again or was that just a PR stunt, i can’t tell the difference anymore with the ridiculous stuff Elon does.

MossBear ,

I haven’t touch them in a long time, but I went in and closed down two old accounts today.

MelonTheMan ,
@MelonTheMan@lemmy.world avatar

One of my friends won’t quit twitter because there’s no good sportsball on mastodon/Lemmy/kbin that I can find. Any groups, people, communities that talk about sportsball?

Would appreciate recommendations

Chadus_Maximus ,

Sadly that’s the fediverse’s biggest weakness. The platform is too recent to have established communities for specific hobbies.

minishoemaze ,

I like fanaticus.social for sports, but it could use some more members

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