The claim is a major departure for the service, which has long been known as a destination for posting short snippets of text.

  • @Hyperlon
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    151 year ago

    For the reason above. There’s not a serious alternative that replaced it for those people.

    • @[email protected]
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      161 year ago

      It’s fucked up how threads immediately devolved into a bigoted Antisemitic shit hole like twitter in a fraction of the time.

      Is it impossible to develop a social media platform that doesn’t get overrun with conspiracy whack jobs and assholes?

      • @ripcord
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        71 year ago

        Is Mastodon overrun too recently, or…?

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          It’s just not a useful platform at present. Maybe one day it’ll be relevant enough but not today.

      • @ArtVandelay
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        51 year ago

        Social media in modern times is an instrument of war. It will always be used as such whenever possible. So no, I think the answer is no

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          Social media in modern times is an instrument of war

          It is fascinating watching what Iran, Qatar and Russia have pulled off this past few years.

        • @[email protected]
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          011 months ago

          Sadly I’ve just come to assume most people are Antisemitic bigots these days. I’d rather be pleasantly surprised than disappointed.

    • @MisterFrog
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      11 year ago

      I never seriously used twitter (I probably have used it less than 10 hours total), but what really is stopping people from getting on mastodon? It’s the same thing, and is extremely easy to sign up for.

      It’s right there, not that I have much of a desire to use it, but if people like twitter, is it just that not enough people are on it? Just the network effect?

      • @Hyperlon
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        11 year ago

        Twitter has more people, meaning more content. It’s the same reason I still have Reddit downloaded.