Re:Analysing the Twitter User Exodus to Mastodon, Bluesky, a...
by rsynnott on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @06:27AM
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Depends on your community, probably, to some extent. Most people I followed and engaged with on Twitter are now on Mastodon; a few are, inconveniently, on Bluesky instead (I can't get the hang of Bluesky's client, so mostly stick to Mastodon-only). But that's going to be really variable depending on the circles you moved in on old-Twitter.
I'm not convinced that there will be one replacement-Twitter; historically with dying social networks that usually doesn't happen. Livejournal people mostly didn't flee to Dreamwidth (the Livejournal clone), say; they went to Tumblr or twitter or various other rather dissimilar social networks. I think Digg->Reddit is possibly the _only_ major example of a drop-in replacement working out.
I'm not convinced that there will be one replacement-Twitter; historically with dying social networks that usually doesn't happen. Livejournal people mostly didn't flee to Dreamwidth (the Livejournal clone), say; they went to Tumblr or twitter or various other rather dissimilar social networks. I think Digg->Reddit is possibly the _only_ major example of a drop-in replacement working out.