It’s not just lemmy that’s benefiting from Elon Musk.

  • miz_elektro
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    532 years ago

    Just deleted my Twitter account. Of course, the app gave nothing but errors so I had to do it on desktop, but it’s done!

    • Polar
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      52 years ago

      I deleted all of mine and move to mastodon when I heard Elon was possibly going to buy it. I’m glad I did, because who knows what he has all implemented since then.

      I am sure my account was never “deleted”, even under Jack, but at least I know I gave the best chance for my data to be deleted.

  • @ioNabio@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Someone in an unrelated discussion, wrote on LinkedIn that blackberry was profitable and grew for a few years after iPhone was anounced. The same for blockbuster after Netflix came to business. Then he was asking on what technologies today will be obsolete because an iPhone has emerged. For me lemmy or mastodon although slow but slowly will eat the competitors as they develop.

    For me I am still reading Reddit since lots of information is there. But I am avoiding on participating there.

  • arglebargle
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    312 years ago

    I am so annoyed that Twitter got ruined.

    Don’t get me wrong. I don’t like Twitter. I don’t follow anyone on Twitter. But if I had no other recourse I could complain about a corporation that wasn’t paying any attention to me and they would do something about it.

    By the way fuck FedEX. Is there a place on mastadon I can bitch about FedEx? I have had a mis-delivered package sitting on my porch for over a month. I call about every three or four days and tell them, pick up your package so it can go to the right place. They say they will get it. They never do.

    Never use FedEx.

    • nik0
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      Is there a place on mastadon I can bitch about FedEx?

      #fuckfedex #fedex

    • @danielton@lemmy.world
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      42 years ago

      Fuck FedEx. Whenever a signature is required, they won’t let me have the package held for pickup anywhere, so I get door tags… even if I’m sitting on the couch watching TV. Called them and they said they don’t require the drivers to knock or ring. I only figured out after a ton of aggravation that if you get three door tags, they will hold the package for pickup for a few days anyway (even though they say they can’t due to “shipper restrictions”).

  • @Tapioca@lemmy.world
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    372 years ago

    There were stories that Tesla had a team in place to distract Elon any time he showed up to the office, and I absolutely believe that. Now that Elon has Twitter to distract him, I wonder what that team is up to.

  • benji
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    102 years ago

    Does anyone have figures on subscription hikes to other fediverse systems? Mastodon is probably the best like-for-like switch for casual birdsite fans, but I wonder if there’s also an emerging desire for something a little different.

  • @Rearsays@lemmy.ml
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    112 years ago

    I don’t think I cared about Twitter, the entire duration of its existence, and now there’s a whole new thing that’s apparently the same and I still don’t care about

  • @scottywh@lemmy.world
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    262 years ago

    Honestly, I joined Twitter begrudgingly in 2015 after ignoring it for years only because I thought it might be easy to keep up with some interesting news before it hit Reddit… and it worked for a while…

    Now, I just wonder why I’m still there at all.

    I also don’t.see why I might want a mastodon account at this point though… I don’t feel like I need a replacement for something that I never really liked…

    • @ActionHank@sopuli.xyz
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      22 years ago

      I feel the same about Mastodon. I just want to be social with my friends, not on broadcast to a bunch of randos. It makes sense for brands and I guess people who commercialize their identity. But I don’t really care about trying to keep up with the lives of brands or really people i don’t know, so i haven’t want or need for such a site. Also I prefer to catch up with someone for real. Like tell me what you did when we hang out next. I don’t want to sit there and pretend like your trip to wherever is news because i already casually saw all the pictures you posted a month ago. And if we are never going to meet again, then I don’t need to know what you do with the rest of your life. I like this format much better. Ego is much less in effect and people can just bounce ideas and jokes around. Reddit though… most of the user base is still over there. I’ve stopped posting and voting entirely. Full lurk mode.

      • @scottywh@lemmy.world
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        22 years ago

        You and I have very similar attitudes on this it seems for sure.

        Fuck reddit and mastodon and twatter and all of it at this point …

        Lemmy is pretty good and I’m content with it for the most part.

  • @s1vgm@lemmy.world
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    322 years ago

    I’ve been trying to stick to Mastodon and ditch Twitter, but honestly, even though I’ve gotten into the habit of using Mastodon every day, it’s pretty hard for me to resist accepting information from Twitter.

    • drewofdoom
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      482 years ago

      It’s ok to get information from places like X/Twitter or Reddit. It’s even fine to have an account. But it’s better to post your OWN material to platforms that best align with your sensibilities.

      • @dodslaser@feddit.nu
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        132 years ago

        This. I still lurk reddit for information, but I will never contribute. Advertisers these days only care about interaction anyway, so I doubt lurking significantly impacts the profitability one way or the other.

        • @DarthRedLeader@lemmy.world
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          112 years ago

          I think you should do you and browse whatever you want. I still use Reddit when looking for opinions on products and services because there’s nothing close to the discussion on there. But visiting the site (without an adblocker) 100% still generates ad revenue and is what matters to ad companies, regardless of actually participating in the discussion.

          • benji
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            12 years ago

            The clicks, even with an adblocker, are still worth something, right? Especially if they’re tied to an account.

    • @Krachsterben@feddit.de
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      92 years ago

      My issue with Mastodon is that many big companies still use Twitter/X as their main way to publish news outside of of their websites and press releases.

      • TheWoozy
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        22 years ago

        I’m not usually interested in what big companies have to say, but I follow some journalists who fortunately cross post to Mastodon, but all discussion takes place on elmo’s X site.

    • mihor
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      -22 years ago

      What? I’ve been using Squawker and lately it stopped working because monkey boy elon borked something again in the twitter api. No tweets for me.

  • @Stinkywinks@lemmy.world
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    182 years ago

    Why are people so fucking addicted to Twitter? It’s just people posting a few sentences about shit I see on the Internet already. But what do I know, I’ve gone my entire life without using the stupid shit. Maybe I’m not taking into account how many people want to be internet celebrities with their parroted tweets and recycled jokes. Why is it so hard to make another site where dumbass celebrities can feed 2 lines to the drooling masses?

  • Franzia
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    452 years ago

    I find Mastodon very stuffy and boring, is there a way to shake up my feed? I feel like I’m missing something about how the app works.

  • KrisND
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    42 years ago

    Is there a need to have a lemmy and Mastodon?

    • @ultrasquid@lemm.ee
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      62 years ago

      You could use only one, but browsing lemmy through mastodon (and vice versa) isn’t a great experience, so its recommended to have an account on both.

    • @bamboo@lemm.ee
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      182 years ago

      Theoretically they’re somewhat interoperable but if you plan on using both you’ll probably have a better experience having an account on an instance of each service.

      • KrisND
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        12 years ago

        Yeah, I think that’s what I’m gonna do. I wanna try it out, I haven’t used any popular social network in years though.

      • Jilanico
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        22 years ago

        How do you follow a mastodon account from lemmy?

        • @gila@lemmy.world
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          32 years ago

          My understanding is that isn’t correct - in Lemmy you currently can follow Mastodon communities, but not users (following users on any fediverse platform including Lemmy itself just isn’t a part of Lemmy yet). I believe it’s planned to be implemented, but this is one thing differentiating Lemmy and Kbin - you can currently follow Mastodon users in Kbin, and in that case I think it’s just the same way you’d follow another Kbin user. To find their user page it would just be kbin.social/u/user@their.mastodon.instance instead of kbin.social/u/user, so I assume it would be similar for Lemmy once implemented

          • Jilanico
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            32 years ago

            in Lemmy you currently can follow Mastodon communities

            How do you follow mastodon communities?

            • @gila@lemmy.world
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              22 years ago

              I think “communities” term is used on Mastodon in reference to what are “instances” on Lemmy. I’m talking about communities as they apply to Lemmy - in Mastodon I think they’re generally called a “group” account. You subscribe to them in Lemmy mostly the same as how you’d subscribe to a Lemmy community on a different instance. e.g. go to your.lemmy.instance/c/groupname@their.mastodon.instance and subscribe. Or just search for the Mastodon group on the Lemmy communities page, making sure the filters are set to “All”. To find a Mastodon user page is the same, just /u/ instead of /c/. You just can’t follow or subscribe to the user pages because that’s not currently a feature in Lemmy, but you can for groups/communities

              • Jilanico
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                12 years ago

                Hmmm doesn’t seem to work for me. Do you have a link in Lemmy to a mastodon group I can subscribe to, just to try it out?

                • @gila@lemmy.world
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                  Upon looking to this further I’m not sure if it actually works as I understood it to, due to the way group services are handled currently in Mastodon. Clearly there is some sort of flag in Activitypub on group accounts to indicate to other apps that it is a group account, because e.g. https://lemmy.ml/c/climatejustice@chirp.social works and you can follow it but the same link substituting /c/ for /u/ does not work. And for normal user accounts, the inverse is true.

                  However, aside from that flag, my understanding is they are essentially just user accounts that boost any posts from followers that mention the account handle, which causes the boosted post to show in the feed for all followers of the account. Since that account isn’t actually posting the posts that it boosts, I guess it makes sense that activity wouldn’t be visible in Lemmy, where boosts don’t exist. Following this logic no posts would be displayed, and that’s what is observed. Initially I thought this was because no one on the instance had followed the group yet, because e.g. https://lemmy.world/c/BlackMastodon@chirp.social does show posts while https://lemmy.ml/c/BlackMastodon@chirp.social does not. The same group on a.gup.pe also shows more posts on https://lemmy.ml/c/BlackMastodon@a.gup.pe.

                  It’s hard for me to make sense of what’s going on here (especially as I don’t microblog or use Mastodon personally) because clearly the Mastodon content is federating through the lemmy instance, but I’ve only been able to observe a subset of it and I haven’t been able to figure out the parameters that have caused some posts to be visible in Lemmy but not others.

      • Madbrad200
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        82 years ago

        Only technically true. The two don’t work super well together, Mastodon is a better frontend if you’re looking for a microbloggingn experience.

    • Jilanico
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      32 years ago

      If you want just one account to experience both, use kbin.

      • KrisND
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        22 years ago

        I’m gonna give that a try and see, before I spend time making an account. Thanks for the recommendation!

  • @AndreTelevise@lemm.ee
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    12 years ago

    Twitter, Tumblr and Bluesky seem to fill the Twitter void for me fairly well, as I am mostly participating in the Furry and Sonic communities which are some of the first to move to these platforms.