Comment by Tygr@lemmy.world on Twitter’s traffic is taking a dive, according to Cloudflare’s CEO.

Good! Hope to see the same stories about Reddit and other major social media platforms that have taken steps to prioritize profit over the community.

The users are your golden apple. Abuse them, the apple turns sour.

I don’t know if it’s just me, but I’m barely using reddit/twitter and now I spend most of my online time on Lemmy/Mastodon.

Same here but i’m afraid we’re not really in the majority.

We never will - we live in the TikTok generation

ugh don’t remind me… i get your point but i still wish for the Fediverse to become more accessible

btw there is a Tiktok clone for the fediverse called Goldfish, although i haven’t tried it lol

also, nice username

Its entirely possible tiktok will be banned by the feds here in the US sooner or later which will most likely nuke a large chunk of anglosphere content. So we may see a shift away from it sooner or later.

reminds me of the new reddit video player. ew.

Yeah, I’m feeling this is more on Meta having excelent timing with Threads unfortunately

Rather than excellent timing, I would bet that Meta saw the writing on the wall the moment Twitter started doing cuestionable things under Elon. I don’t think they would’ve launched Threads to compete against pre-Elon Twitter.

Also, albeit small in overall users, there’s been a constant exodus of users ever since Elon took over, so they are trying to capitalize on that.

No social network dies over night, but with Threads racing to become the mainstream text-based social media, Twitter will be slowly becoming irrelevant, until it dies.

Edit: Grammar

I was curious about this. Turns out meta started talking about a Twitter competitor app in November, and started developing it in January.

Threads is a direct response to Musk buying Twitter.

That’s fine. The user base doesn’t need to be in the nine or ten figures to have a community that has decent activity. Even with the thousands activity has been impressive, and that’s with all this fragmentation across instances too.

The fragmentation doesn’t really matter though, as we can all read and participate in the same threads :)

Yep hi programing.dev instance!

And hello to you, lemmy.one!

It doesn’t take much to panic these idiots. Even a 10% drop means someone has to answer for it

We too are part of the majority. This isnt about quantity but, quality. x

+1 to this. I’ve had way more insightful conversations on the Fediverse—with less followers/recognition/brand—than on any centralized platform.

Love the discourse. Makes me think, allows me to learn, consider new perspectives, etc.

I thought the proverb was: cook a golden goose and you’ll eat for a day. Teach the golden goose to lay eggs and you’ll eat for a lifetime.

Gold is edible btw. Or at least inedible and non-toxic. It passes through without chemically reacting.

Mine was just made up on the fly. Been playing Zelda Tears of the Kingdom lately and had to round up some golden apples for something, lol

Give a man a fire, you’ll keep him warm for a night. Light a man on fire, you’ll keep him warm for the rest of his life.

We should have that “your joke but worse” community here.

Proverbial fish: am I a joke to you?

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