These companies either need to rip the bandaid off and leave Twitter or, at least, start establishing themselves elsewhere and encourage their users to find the content wherever that place is.
This is definitely already happening. It’ll be slow, but both my wife and are work adjacent to marketing for larger companies and “well twitter is a shitshow, what else can we use” is such a constant refrain it’s basically canon now.
We’ll have to wait till Bluesky is out of invite only, and no one knows how long that’ll take. I have an account on it and enjoy it, but a lot of people are mad they can’t join right now
Bluesky confuses me as a business. It is made by a founder of Twitter. Twitter was not profitable for MANY YEARS before finally making a very small profit. So the business model itself seem suspect, and there’s the question of why the creator of Twitter couldn’t make it work, can make another stab at the same thing work.
Further, with the acquision and death spiral of Twitter post-Musk, why would users be interested/willing to sign up for *yet another service that did the same thing before by the guy that sold out once already.
People just want a Twitter replacement that’s not owned by Musk and are willing to jump to the next best thing. I wish they’d go with Masto over Bluesky/Threads, but those have Brand Recognition.
Really doesn’t feel like any of them are ready yet. I think Lemmy works really well because the tools you need for building communities are quite simple but Twitter-style social media is deceptively more daunting
These companies either need to rip the bandaid off and leave Twitter or, at least, start establishing themselves elsewhere and encourage their users to find the content wherever that place is.
This is definitely already happening. It’ll be slow, but both my wife and are work adjacent to marketing for larger companies and “well twitter is a shitshow, what else can we use” is such a constant refrain it’s basically canon now.
Interesting insight. Glad to know it’s happening.
We’ll have to wait till Bluesky is out of invite only, and no one knows how long that’ll take. I have an account on it and enjoy it, but a lot of people are mad they can’t join right now
Bluesky confuses me as a business. It is made by a founder of Twitter. Twitter was not profitable for MANY YEARS before finally making a very small profit. So the business model itself seem suspect, and there’s the question of why the creator of Twitter couldn’t make it work, can make another stab at the same thing work.
Further, with the acquision and death spiral of Twitter post-Musk, why would users be interested/willing to sign up for *yet another service that did the same thing before by the guy that sold out once already.
None of it make sense to me.
People just want a Twitter replacement that’s not owned by Musk and are willing to jump to the next best thing. I wish they’d go with Masto over Bluesky/Threads, but those have Brand Recognition.
Really doesn’t feel like any of them are ready yet. I think Lemmy works really well because the tools you need for building communities are quite simple but Twitter-style social media is deceptively more daunting
I saw today The Washington Post has a bluesky account (@washingtonpost.com).
Now they just need to set up a Masto account.
I follow a few of their journalists on Masto, but I don’t think they have an official account yet.
I prefer Mastodon, but they just need to be anywhere BUT Twitter.