I have never before received so many reactions and comments on my Lemmy posts before, so it's obvious to see, that there are many new members here.
Welcome to all the new! And I'm looking forward to see more of you here.
Cheers!
I come back after a couple of weeks and we've quadrupled at least. It comes in waves, and now I'm thinking it may not stop (until some reddit staff make their own BlueSky equivalent, of course)
Hah, this is the second "September" I've been through, and it's huge, but I think the eternal one will be the next one. At least a lot of people are learning that lemmy.ml isn't a neutral flagship instance; the hug of death may have been a blessing in disguise, encouraging people to spread to the other instances a little bit more.
Most people who have come over have been pretty good about the thing and tried to learn about the local culture instead of just inventing "reddit, but here" again, honestly, but it's just that the few troublemakers tend to be louder and argumentative.
Looks like even more brands are going to vanish from Twitter soon.
One of Twitter's big advantages over Mastodon for brands and advertisers was that it was supported by a range of social media and ad management tools.
Not anymore!
Via Mashable:
"Microsoft is going to drop Twitter from its Microsoft Advertising plan next week, according to the company.
"Users will no longer be able to access their Twitter account through its Digital Marketing Center's social media management tool, according to Microsoft. Users will also no longer be able to schedule, create, or manage tweets or tweet drafts. In addition, users won't be able to view their past tweets and engagement on the Microsoft Advertising platform."
Reputation risk has often been emphasised (in my experience) within companies.
Twitter is now seeing mass exoduses, shutting out organizations on the CEO's whim, and (while I'm not sure how mainstream this is) being associated with USA right-wing politics. I thought Zucker's Cambridge Analytica scandal was the best we'd get, but this is a rapid total implosion event. In my privileged position of never liking twitter, I would call it beautiful. But most might prefer 'train-wreck'.
So yeah, we might see a point where being associated with Twitter becomes not just a waste of time but actively harmful to a company and catching journalistic/consumer flak.
Given the context of this post (Fediverse), I'm morbidly curious to see how many simply don't move to another microblogging platform, like Mastodon. The early Fedi users actively valued the lack of commercialism and popularity-seeking. And I too hope these annoying and harmful things don't find a home there. There will be brands who try, and being so used to the paradigm of twitter and the mainstream, get pushed away, but I think most won't even try.
That's a good point, those tools would make it easy enough to post and helps add the Fediverse into their view.
I hadn't realised those social media management tools were also impacted with the API outages, so maybe more and more will be looking towards the competitors, and it seems like Mastodon has finally managed to become a big fish.
I see what you mean. I have seen communities migrate platforms, both successfully or with issues, and a slow sinking ship in a decentralized community (e.g. #BlackTwitter), where the large move of people probably won't happen suddenly like with a deplatforming, feels like it will be an uncomfortable slow split.
But, like you said with journalism, I sincerely think that they would benefit from the move, or even a split. Twitter is that bad.