Twitter isn’t dying and isn’t broken. I have also learned the Atlantic is hit and miss. The users and content is still on Twitter. The people going to Mastodon are the niche group of techies. Mastodon isn’t for your casual or average twitter user which is a majority of twitter.
I think news and ads ruined social media today. I do miss the days of MySpace when people used to log on, hangout and message each other. You used to connect with your friends online. Today, social media isn’t really used like that anymore.
Twitter isn’t dying. The users and content is still there. The people going to Mastodon are the niche group of techies. Mastodon isn’t for your casual or average twitter user.
I think news and ads ruined social media today. I do miss the days of MySpace and people used to log on , hangout and message each other. You used to to connect with your friends online. Today, social media isn’t really used like that anymore.
Decent mildlyinteresting sub on Lemmy but it feels really barren out here (reddit refuge here). Can’t find a sub for my breed of dog or my make of car. Looking for some suggestions for solid Lemmy subs to make me feel like there is something going on here....
It’s going to take some time or you can create the community. July 1st just arrived. So people are still trying to figure out what to do about Reddit. Not everyone was going to migrate to Lemmy July 1st when 3PA shut down. It’ll happen over time. In the meantime we can all do our part and contribute to the different communities now and create content so more people will want to join.
Alessandro Paluzzi, a developer who routinely digs into app code to expose unreleased features, tweeted early this morning that Meta’s Twitter clone, Thread, had been released into the Google Play store. It appears as though that was a mistake, however, because the app is nowhere to be found now.
For Facebook being Facebook, I can’t help but think how will they screw up “Threads.” Instagram has become a junk platform and WhatsApp has declined as well. Meta or Facebook will try to monetize Threads or ActivityPub with their own take. I can’t believe anything decent let alone good will come from this.
It’s like huffman and musk are sharing ways to screw over users and their platforms. I get a company needs to make money but personally, I don’t think this is the way.
I’m not sure if you’ve tried this PWA called Wefwef but it feels like a fully featured Apollo client for Lemmy already. You just go to the site and add it to your home screen. No beta to sign up for. No TestFlight link. Just add the PWA....
I just installed Mlem and Memmy. Both have a very nice UI and are smooth. I am leaning towards Mlem though. I like swiping right to view my communities.
Edit: I was an Apollo user and reddit does not feel the same without Apollo.
Just figured this might be some welcome news to shout out from the crow's nest. Haven't tried it yet myself, so would love some feedback, me hearties! https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/48221b32-eee4-4c28-8f48-6dee90f73c58.png
I haven't used Google in a while. I have been using Brave Search and it has been good. They don't rely on any of the big search engines anymore either. They have been building their own index. Right now they only rely on Google and Bing search for image search.
threads is already going great 💀 (lemmy.world)
source
Everything New in iOS 17 Beta 3 (www.macrumors.com)
Apple to request US Supreme Court to reverse App Store ruling in Epic Games Case (www.ghacks.net)
Elon Musk Really Broke Twitter This Time - The Atlantic (archive.is)
Tl,dr: Musk is irratic and has no plan, per a journalist who has covered him for five years.
So where are we all supposed to go now? (www.theverge.com)
Twitter’s dying, Reddit’s changing, everything else is entertainment – and there’s nowhere left to hang out.
Apple hitting roadblocks in Vision Pro assembly (appleinsider.com)
Twitter Rolling Out Support for Picture-in-Picture on iOS (www.macrumors.com)
Google Messages web app now supports direct reply (9to5google.com)
A Tesla owner says he was locked out of his EV after its 12-volt battery died amid the Texas heat (www.businessinsider.com)
(Edit: he decided to pay google ~10 days before the date) Elon refusing to pay google for hosting could be behind the instability issues. (i.imgur.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/927640...
where are the (good) subs?
Decent mildlyinteresting sub on Lemmy but it feels really barren out here (reddit refuge here). Can’t find a sub for my breed of dog or my make of car. Looking for some suggestions for solid Lemmy subs to make me feel like there is something going on here....
Bluesky temporarily halts sign-ups because so many people are joining from Twitter (www.theverge.com)
The Reddit moderators who coordinate many celebrity AMAs will no longer do so (www.theverge.com)
They finally did it: Reddit made it impossible for blind Redditors to moderate their own sub - r/Blind (libreddit.domain.glass)
Meta’s Twitter competitor, Threads, briefly showed up on Google Play (www.theverge.com)
Alessandro Paluzzi, a developer who routinely digs into app code to expose unreleased features, tweeted early this morning that Meta’s Twitter clone, Thread, had been released into the Google Play store. It appears as though that was a mistake, however, because the app is nowhere to be found now.
Twitter announces read limits
edition.cnn.com/2023/07/01/tech/…/index.html
The Reddit Protests Continue, but the Company Has a Much Bigger ProblemThere's a disconnect between how Reddit sees itself and its real value to the world (www.inc.com)
Fidelity deepens valuation cut for Reddit and Discord (techcrunch.com)
Twitter's latest user-unfriendly move requires an account just to read (www.androidpolice.com)
In an unforeseen turn of events, Twitter has decided to test user patience by cloistering tweets behind a sign-in wall
Wefwef for Lemmy feels exactly like Apollo. (wefwef.app)
I’m not sure if you’ve tried this PWA called Wefwef but it feels like a fully featured Apollo client for Lemmy already. You just go to the site and add it to your home screen. No beta to sign up for. No TestFlight link. Just add the PWA....
Twitter locked behind login page. (lemm.ee)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/513993...
Minecraft's devs exit its 7 million-strong subreddit after Reddit's ham-fisted crackdown on protest (www.pcgamer.com)
Duck Duck Go browser available for Windows (duckduckgo.com)
Just figured this might be some welcome news to shout out from the crow's nest. Haven't tried it yet myself, so would love some feedback, me hearties! https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/48221b32-eee4-4c28-8f48-6dee90f73c58.png