There is a thread on Mastodon talking about Reddit users rapidly embracing Mastodon to share links, videos, news since Twitter has implemented a login wall to view content. Now we need to encourage them to come to lemmy/kbin!...
The recent excitement surrounding Thread’s arrival on the Fediverse is concerning. To understand why this is not a good idea, consider their economic interest in harvesting data, their poor moderation, and their manipulations. Nothing good can come from their federation. Don’t roll out the red carpet for them....
When I look at Mastodon posts, I see a decent amount of replies and boosts for popular posts, but not very many stars (see example image). I assumed a star is the same as a like, but I feel not a lot of people star a post, whereas I did see a lot of hearts/likes on Twitter posts. Are they not equivalent?
I wrote a blog post titled 'The day I decided to build my own “Twitter”' and I still stand behind it. Yet I returned to Twitter. What gives?
Open source and decentralized social network Mastodon has more users than it thought. The service, which competes with X (formerly Twitter) and other
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/795792...
Elon Musk’s changes to Twitter have led to a demand for an alternative - and Meta may be about to provide it.
The trio claimed that they had effectively “broken the internet” because of mass interest in the event, but in reality that was not the case. The audience that assembled was not even close to epic proportions. At its peak, some six-hundred thousand listeners were awaiting DeSantis’ remarks during the initial Twitter Spaces...
Out of about 150,000 early subscribers to Twitter Blue, just around 68,157 have stuck around and maintained a paid subscription as of April 30. Subscriptions are $8 per month – $11 on mobile.
Link to full text: …writeas.com/stepping-back-from-the-tusky-project
The threat suggests that Threads is the most serious rival yet to Elon Musk’s chaotic social platform.
Alternative to Elon Musk’s social media platform will launch this week in US, UK.
The #TwitterMigration continues as users, developers, and technologies are migrating away from increasing chaos and toxicity on Twitter and toward newer, and more open, platforms. This is the June 2023 edition of this quarterly report.
I know this has been the norm on Twitter, but I’m getting tired of seeing people use mock names like “Melon Usk”, “the Muskrat” when referring to Elon Musk, or “the Cheetoh”, “the Grump” when talking about Trump, and so on....
