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I’m honestly surprised at how small the drop is, because it feels like I no longer know anyone who’s using it. Haven’t heard a conversation with involving something someone read there in forever. Hear about reddit all the time.

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feels like OSS early adopter folks have been trying to leave for years, legal + media people moved to bsky this month and are starting to close their twitter accounts, younger VC / founder type people are trying to stick it out

some of the oss + scifi author crowd has been making it work on mastodon but may come to bsky. (think like charlie stross)

celeb + sports accounts are joining bsky now post-election, and in theory a bunch of users that will jump with them; insta/threads may still win this slice though

rn on bsky there's an early twitter dynamic of like mark hammill following tech journalists

>rn on bsky there's an early twitter dynamic of like mark hammill following tech journalists

Lmao

I suspect that bsky will have very Twitter like problems as it scales. Still might check it out before that happens.

yeah, there's a theory of social networks that you have to move to new ones as they age

I think twitter aged artificially fast after it stopped investing in moderation and also shut off external researchers' access to the firehose (they were helping discover bad actor networks)

bsky seems more open to integrations at this point; like w/ subreddits, ownership of communities by those communities makes maintenance cheaper

Vast number of people use Facebook, but when did you last hear about anything happening on Facebook? I think Twitter has lost cultural capital faster than it has lost actual users; there are still a bunch of people there (or were til the last couple of months, anyway; there really does seem to be a sea-change now and the above study, going up to May, won’t capture it), but it’s a lot less culturally important.

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