Let’s review what Elon Musk has done just in 2023:
- Changed Twitter to X.
- Plans to implement a small monthly payment for everyone using the X system.
- Plans to collect user biometric information, job, and education history for “safety, security, and identification purposes.”
- Brings back shadowbanning.
- Uses user data to train AI models.
- Limits replies to verified users only.
Elon has made so many terrible changes to Twitter that I can’t remember what the breaking point was for me.
Fortunately, there’s a lot more competition in Twitter-like social media platforms. Mastodon may currently hold the position as the most established platform, but there are numerous other services competing to become the next preferred place for online users.
Great news if you’ve ever looked at your replies and thought “you know what? there are too many non-Nazis here”
I get what you mean but at the same time that would mean we’d want more Nazis. I do not want more Nazis.
I think you missed the sarcasm
Most definitely
Been there, sorry ya got downvoted for it!
People still use Twitter?
People are were the content is, but using this platform after all that’s happened to it… Yeah no, I don’t get it either
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I have frequently found myself surrounded by Twitter and Instagram users, and they seem just as deluded as they do from here.
These people existed before lemmy, reddit or digg. just annoying to be around.
I don’t know anyone in real life who uses it. Even before Musk bought it out. I’m getting older so checked with gen z in my family and they don’t use it either.
It’s popular among journalists and media types so it gets talked about as if it’s a huge public forum for everyone but it’s not.
Why are you here exactly?
To read and comment on content?
Way too many massively good artists I follow are still on Twitter with no intention of leaving. Some are on Pixiv or DeviantArt, but most not.
Out of interest, what do you get out of following artists you like on twitter?
Unfortunately, it’s still where the majority of the art community resides after the enshittification of deviantART. Fortunately, I have other ways of staying in touch with the “best of the best” among my artist friends now, but there are still many holdouts.
As someone who doesn’t really follow that art scene, what happened with deviantart?
About 10 years ago, Angelo Sotira ($spyed) fired one of the other co-founders, Spot, and started pitting paying users against non-paying users. Free users had a marker on their profile saying “Needs Premium Membership.” The site also marked whether you were a paying or free user everywhere. Sound familiar?
They drew more controversy in 2018 when they hired this marketing firm to come up with a lackluster new logo everybody hated. Because, you know, it’s not like they had a bunch of artists using the site or anything.
Free users had a marker on their profile saying “Needs Premium Membership.” The site also marked whether you were a paying or free user everywhere.
Big yikes. Goddamn that’s dumb
Some of my fave artists have mastodon accounts, that are their main accounts, I urge you to check it out maybe you can find the artists you want to follow there
I have Mastodon, and I only know one artist on there. The majority of them are still on Twitter even though they hate it.
@breadsmasher @SSUPII it’s more about FOMO I guess than having anything useful. Happy to not follow any of them …
Agreed.
They use Twitter because they can’t use MySpace
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Most people don’t care
That right there is the shitty truth
Shitty but hardly surprising. Twitter has a global reach, a decade+ of experience and momentum and critical mass etc. A twitter exodus isn’t going to happen over night.
Artists want their art to be seen by as many people as possible. Their livelihood probably depends on it.
It’s as if it’s a big problem to manage one more platform between all the ones they already do. Lot’s of apps and options to just automatically cross post content to multiple platforms too or just mirror mastodon to Twitter or vice versa.
At this point, ignoring or avoiding another platform where so many people already are is just laziness.
Braindead comment. It’s like people who say shit like this have never been part of an online community
An asshole bought the social media site you use and you haven’t convinced dozens of friends and all the other people whose posts you like seeing to switch to a different platform???
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Damus (or Nostr) seem like just a firehose of crap. Maybe I just couldn’t find the right people to follow, but it just seemed like 50 cryptobros and 1000 bots.
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Bluesky has federation in testing with 3rd party clients already existing
“Accounts you follow” still the best option.
Otherway round would be a lot more useful. Block idiots who pay Elon for his new ‘X’.
That already exists by leaving Twitter. 👽
Humanity will make huge progress once it stop commenting every sh*t originating from E. Misk.
Seriously, there is now way to block all that noise?
Lots of lemmy clients have keyword filters
Oh, thanks. Didn’t notice :)
Free block list
Can’t believe you forgot the usage limits on how many tweets you can view and how many DMs you can send. I think some of those might have been walked back, but I know people who were holding back from discord because twitter DMs were enough that now rarely go there.
Also all sorts of API functionality has been killed off - embeds, RSS, bots, etc
It’s funny that all the new features they’re touting over there are really simple changes. Things like a new setting that controls an if statement.
What a time to be alive!
What I need for Mastodon is a database of verified users organized by subject matter expertise or your of content.
There are a few attempts things like this. Here is one… https://fedi.directory
