I don't know where to post: there are too many social platforms, and the old giants are dying. The age of social media is splintering.

Great news — social media is falling apart::I don’t know where to post: there are too many social platforms, and the old giants are dying. The age of social media is splintering.

  • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1142·
    1 year ago

    I wished they mentioned Lemmy, but at least they are talking about Mastodon. I don’t understand why more media outlets aren’t switching away from Twitter, given how brazen Elon is with his enshittification.

    EDIT: Away from Twitter, not to Twitter.

    • Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.worldEnglish
      271·
      1 year ago

      Inertia and that it still has a large userbase. The media outlets and corporations won’t leave until something causes a mass exodus – like Twitter/X becoming subscription only.

      • Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
        26·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, seeing a lot of places capitulating, replacing the Twitter bird with an X. Though the BBC has been experimenting with Mastodon for a few months, lately…

        • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          10·
          1 year ago

          Along with MSNBC, ProPublica, The Intercept, Voice of America, The Mirror, Rolling Stone, Al Jazeera, and a bunch of others.

      • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        Use both Mastodon and Twitter, and then jump ship from Twitter once the time is right. Once Twitter is completely gated by a paywall, the whole thing will just collapse.

    • wazoobonkerbrain@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      I don’t understand why more media outlets aren’t switching to Twitter, given how brazen Elon is with his enshittification.

      Elon’s enshittification of Twitter would be a reason to switch away from, not to, Twitter.

    • mint_tamas@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      Part of the reason could be that when there was a large wave of people switching, including journalists on their own instance, that instance promptly got blocked by a large percentage of the fediverse based on some unclear moral grounds.