Let’s review what Elon Musk has done just in 2023:

  1. Changed Twitter to X.
  2. Plans to implement a small monthly payment for everyone using the X system.
  3. Plans to collect user biometric information, job, and education history for “safety, security, and identification purposes.”
  4. Brings back shadowbanning.
  5. Uses user data to train AI models.
  6. Limits replies to verified users only.

Elon has made so many terrible changes to Twitter that I can’t remember what the breaking point was for me.

Fortunately, there’s a lot more competition in Twitter-like social media platforms. Mastodon may currently hold the position as the most established platform, but there are numerous other services competing to become the next preferred place for online users.

  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.spaceEnglish
    651·
    1 year ago

    Great news if you’ve ever looked at your replies and thought “you know what? there are too many non-Nazis here”

    • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
      161·
      1 year ago

      People are were the content is, but using this platform after all that’s happened to it… Yeah no, I don’t get it either

      • Wisely@lemm.ee
        3·
        1 year ago

        I don’t know anyone in real life who uses it. Even before Musk bought it out. I’m getting older so checked with gen z in my family and they don’t use it either.

        • Toribor@corndog.socialEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          It’s popular among journalists and media types so it gets talked about as if it’s a huge public forum for everyone but it’s not.

      • jsdz@lemmy.ml
        41·
        1 year ago

        I have frequently found myself surrounded by Twitter and Instagram users, and they seem just as deluded as they do from here.

      • loki@lemmy.mlEnglish
        41·
        1 year ago

        These people existed before lemmy, reddit or digg. just annoying to be around.

    • SSUPII@sopuli.xyz
      111·
      1 year ago

      Way too many massively good artists I follow are still on Twitter with no intention of leaving. Some are on Pixiv or DeviantArt, but most not.

        • danielton@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
          61·
          1 year ago

          Unfortunately, it’s still where the majority of the art community resides after the enshittification of deviantART. Fortunately, I have other ways of staying in touch with the “best of the best” among my artist friends now, but there are still many holdouts.

            • danielton@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
              3·
              1 year ago

              About 10 years ago, Angelo Sotira ($spyed) fired one of the other co-founders, Spot, and started pitting paying users against non-paying users. Free users had a marker on their profile saying “Needs Premium Membership.” The site also marked whether you were a paying or free user everywhere. Sound familiar?

              They drew more controversy in 2018 when they hired this marketing firm to come up with a lackluster new logo everybody hated. Because, you know, it’s not like they had a bunch of artists using the site or anything.

          • RachelRodent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            3·
            1 year ago

            Some of my fave artists have mastodon accounts, that are their main accounts, I urge you to check it out maybe you can find the artists you want to follow there

            • naught@sh.itjust.works
              51·
              1 year ago

              Shitty but hardly surprising. Twitter has a global reach, a decade+ of experience and momentum and critical mass etc. A twitter exodus isn’t going to happen over night.

        • loki@lemmy.mlEnglish
          61·
          1 year ago

          Artists want their art to be seen by as many people as possible. Their livelihood probably depends on it.

          • devfuuu@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 year ago

            It’s as if it’s a big problem to manage one more platform between all the ones they already do. Lot’s of apps and options to just automatically cross post content to multiple platforms too or just mirror mastodon to Twitter or vice versa.

            At this point, ignoring or avoiding another platform where so many people already are is just laziness.

        • glimse@lemmy.world
          41·
          1 year ago

          Braindead comment. It’s like people who say shit like this have never been part of an online community

          An asshole bought the social media site you use and you haven’t convinced dozens of friends and all the other people whose posts you like seeing to switch to a different platform???

  • GenEcon@lemm.ee
    11·
    1 year ago

    Otherway round would be a lot more useful. Block idiots who pay Elon for his new ‘X’.

  • morras@links.hackliberty.org
    7·
    1 year ago

    Humanity will make huge progress once it stop commenting every sh*t originating from E. Misk.

    Seriously, there is now way to block all that noise?

  • harmonea@kbin.social
    6·
    1 year ago

    Can’t believe you forgot the usage limits on how many tweets you can view and how many DMs you can send. I think some of those might have been walked back, but I know people who were holding back from discord because twitter DMs were enough that now rarely go there.

    Also all sorts of API functionality has been killed off - embeds, RSS, bots, etc

  • hperrin@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 year ago

    It’s funny that all the new features they’re touting over there are really simple changes. Things like a new setting that controls an if statement.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
    11·
    1 year ago

    What I need for Mastodon is a database of verified users organized by subject matter expertise or your of content.