Twittergeddon, the End Is the Beginning

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3 points·mkarliner··6 comments

Somebody has to fund social media. If it’s not user’s wallets it’s their eyeballs. And it’s probably always eyeballs to some degree. If we’re nice about terminology, it’s marketing. But there are other, darker names from the 20th century that are probably more appropriate.

Wikipedia manages on contributions.

Wikipedia is not social media in the common use of the term. Not a lot of interaction between users that I’m aware of.

> Twitter is now toxic to advertisers, influencers, and many general users

I guess that's what he wanted? I mean I don't feel sad that advertisers and influencers (basically also advertisers) now have it harder on Twitter. In my book it's a good thing that this particular era of Twitter is coming to an end.

And Mastodon, which everyone claims is superior, I see mainly as a GDPR nightmare but it also has other flaws which will probably prevent it from being accepted by the majority of (especially non-tech-savvy) users

Well, that's not my experience so far. I actually created an account in 2017, which I'd forgotten about, but return a couple of weeks ago. What I'm seeing is an influx of non-techie users, in terms of writers, artists, musicians, scientists etc. There's also been quite a lot of traffic from lawyers about the the potential hazards of running an instance, which appear to be acceptable. I don't think Tooters are claiming Mastodon 'is superiour', except for culture, which is demonstrably true. It's a different thing, and I think that it can offer brands and advertisers some unique opportunities. This burst of mainstream publicity may encourage that.

My spelling suffers at around this time of day...

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