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It's not just lemmy that's benefiting from Elon Musk.

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[-] jayrodtheoldbod@midwest.social 17 points 1 year ago

that's cool. The Masto instance I've been on for the last half year is no longer available and I'll have to start over because I didn't have a main and a back up account like I ended up with on Lemmy, but sure, that's alright. I have no idea what happened, the instance still has a blank page up, but it ain't Mastodon.

I was finally feeling moved in but now, kaput.

I don't think this thing was really ready for absolutely everyone on Twitter to bail onto it, is the problem. I don't think it was ever supposed to be. It was always supposed to be like a clubhouse for people who didn't mind being the dweebs of the internet.

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[-] Stinkywinks@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Why are people so fucking addicted to Twitter? It's just people posting a few sentences about shit I see on the Internet already. But what do I know, I've gone my entire life without using the stupid shit. Maybe I'm not taking into account how many people want to be internet celebrities with their parroted tweets and recycled jokes. Why is it so hard to make another site where dumbass celebrities can feed 2 lines to the drooling masses?

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[-] Haha@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

I'm starting to believe Elon never cared about twitter. He only bought the userbase and is doing whatever with it. That's sad. Twitter is just not what it once was.

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He very obviously did not want to buy Twitter; he tried for months to get out of it but because of stupid things he had publicly said, if he had failed to go through with it, he might have been up on criminal market manipulation charges. He was forced to purchase it by legal action from Twitter after he said the stupid things.

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[-] ioNabio@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Someone in an unrelated discussion, wrote on LinkedIn that blackberry was profitable and grew for a few years after iPhone was anounced. The same for blockbuster after Netflix came to business. Then he was asking on what technologies today will be obsolete because an iPhone has emerged. For me lemmy or mastodon although slow but slowly will eat the competitors as they develop.

For me I am still reading Reddit since lots of information is there. But I am avoiding on participating there.

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[-] Rearsays@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

I don’t think I cared about Twitter, the entire duration of its existence, and now there’s a whole new thing that’s apparently the same and I still don’t care about

[-] Fireinthehole101@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

Good, Twitter is a disgrace to humanity

[-] nutsack@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

my engagement rates on mastodon and bluesky have been significantly higher than twitter despite having 1/5 the number of followers

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[-] Brisolo32@lemmy.eco.br 10 points 1 year ago

if there was (more) portuguese content in mastodon I'd move to it

[-] I_Am_Randy@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Be the change you want to see in the world.

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[-] markon@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Thank you Elon ❤️ 🤣🤣

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[-] benjihm@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Does anyone have figures on subscription hikes to other fediverse systems? Mastodon is probably the best like-for-like switch for casual birdsite fans, but I wonder if there's also an emerging desire for something a little different.

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[-] 99nights@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Haven't used my twitter account in probably close to a decade or so but I still can't find a use for mastodon either.

[-] Pacers31Colts18@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Any android app recommendations? I'm yet to use Mastodon.

[-] tabular@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Only tried Tusky from F-droid store, no complaints.

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