Less than 30 days ago article, hope thats ok. It will be interesting to see the effects of the myriad of websites that are de-listing twitter.

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    Ah, glad to see we’re trading the platform that Jack Dorsey previously sold to a fascist for an obscene sum of money for the platform that Jack Dorsey hasn’t yet sold to a fascist for an obscene sum of money.

    I’m so deeply disappointed that Mastadon isn’t taking a larger share of traffic.

    • mesamuneOP
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      292 months ago

      I’m fine with it. We don’t need to be the most popular, we just need to be there consistently.

      People continue to come over slowly and then they keep engaging. It’s not fizzing out so it’s been very nice.

    • @Taldan@lemmy.world
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      72 months ago

      At least it will be really funny if Bluesky just becomes the new Twitter and Musk’s 55B loses most of its value

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        Thats what I bet will happen. Elon is the “fellow kids” meme in a nutshell. He bought an entire platform to look cool, only to make the platform itself stale and broken. I feel bad for the employees that will have that on their resume (or laid off) but what can you do?

        At least blue sky has the bridge. It kinda works. I will still be using mastodon/Gotosocial but to others they can use whatever platform they want to talk to me. Including family.

    • Anulia Beokraniol
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      @xmunk @mesamunefire I also dislike Jack Dorsey, but it’s false to say that “he sold twitter”.
      He did not own 50% or more of the companies shares, so he couldn’t make that decision by himself.
      Additionally, as I just learned from wikipedia, he had already resigned as CEO a year before the sale

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      32 months ago

      Eugen has admitted, in some ways, that he’s introverted and perhaps didn’t have the skills to create the publicity needed to have it grab general public attention. While I have concerns that the new non-profit will become a Mozilla type entity with too much overhead, hopefully some useful overhead can be put into better marketing the product.