I don’t get why people still use that platform. It’s so hostile to the users. This is an election year and we’re just going to give him all this influence? Society is a big dumb animal.
I have never seen the appeal to Twitter. It’s never seemed like a useful part on social media. I have never heard a change and go “well now I will check it out.”
It was extremely useful in sports for quick in-game updates, especially from third-party groups (like the news beat reporters, versus getting info from the team).
It’s really entrenched, though: Even with all of the chaos and controversy, it’s hard to find articles that reference something that happened in a game that don’t embed some tweets (or whatever they hell they’re called now) for the video. It’s extremely frustrating. I think, in part, that’s why the hockey community here on lemmy isn’t taking off - no one wants to link to Twitter, and there are basically no other sources.
I don’t get why people still use that platform. It’s so hostile to the users. This is an election year and we’re just going to give him all this influence? Society is a big dumb animal.
I have never seen the appeal to Twitter. It’s never seemed like a useful part on social media. I have never heard a change and go “well now I will check it out.”
It was extremely useful in sports for quick in-game updates, especially from third-party groups (like the news beat reporters, versus getting info from the team).
It’s really entrenched, though: Even with all of the chaos and controversy, it’s hard to find articles that reference something that happened in a game that don’t embed some tweets (or whatever they hell they’re called now) for the video. It’s extremely frustrating. I think, in part, that’s why the hockey community here on lemmy isn’t taking off - no one wants to link to Twitter, and there are basically no other sources.
It always felt like a big void to shout into, unless you have some sort of following that listens.
I tried Mastodon recently… It rules. Would recommend.
I think it’s mostly because everyone else is. Momentum is difficult and slow to change.
It is the only platform where I can follow specific people without a algorithm getting in the way. They all need to choose a new one to move to.