• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    I remember when the backlash to Xitter was pretty high, culturally. I asked why our company was still using Xitter.

    Crickets. And even after he gave the Nazi salute, still no change.

    The answer is - “that’s where everyone is”. They aren’t wrong. The network effect sucks.

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      Meh. “That’s where everyone is” it’s more like that’s where all the bots and algorithmic gatekeeping are. I get way more engagement on mastodon than I ever did on twitter post-2012 algorithm shakeup. Before the algorithmic censorship, I got lots of engagement on twitter. But that twitter hasn’t existed for a long time. When I got on mastodon it was like oh. The algorithm is the entire problem. No wonder OWS and the Arab spring were so big. No wonder the algorithms came after them.