Those still there don’t know better (lots of millenials, and older, folks and those barely online), like Elon’s changes, or are there passively (syndicating other feeds).
Because there isn’t a good replacement. Mastodon is a mess with no reach and servers that will perma-ban you if you don’t post for a week, bsky is still kinda tiny, spoutible feels like “all politics all the time”, cohost is jank.
Nobody really left Twitter because Twitter is where everyone else is.
My anecdoral experience, although I was probably exagerrating a bit.
Still, if I take a break from twitter/bsky/cohost/spoutible/whatever for a month, I don’t come back to “we decided this account is banned now and you can’t get it back, have fun”. Lost three mastodon accounts like that before I just gave up.
Frankly, why do people still use that garbage of a platform?
Network effect. People can’t leave because the people they like to talk with are they and those people can’t leave for the same reason.
Those still there don’t know better (lots of millenials, and older, folks and those barely online), like Elon’s changes, or are there passively (syndicating other feeds).
Same reason people still use Facebook, it’s why it’s known most of the time these days as the old people platform.
Because there isn’t a good replacement. Mastodon is a mess with no reach and servers that will perma-ban you if you don’t post for a week, bsky is still kinda tiny, spoutible feels like “all politics all the time”, cohost is jank.
Nobody really left Twitter because Twitter is where everyone else is.
Citation Fucking needed.
My anecdoral experience, although I was probably exagerrating a bit.
Still, if I take a break from twitter/bsky/cohost/spoutible/whatever for a month, I don’t come back to “we decided this account is banned now and you can’t get it back, have fun”. Lost three mastodon accounts like that before I just gave up.