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Chances for the fediverse? Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves (www.politico.eu)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/372863

cross-posted from: https://metawire.eu/post/61363

The right-wing billionaire’s platform has recently lost about 10 percent of its European user base.

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[+] 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)
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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    For most people it's unfortunately just "is it like Twitter" - both in terms of accessibility and algorithmic content suggestion.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I think a sad part of this is due to people wanting that vapid dopamagic response the algorithm provides.

    Is it bad for us? Yes.

    But addicts are going to addict 🫤

    I know lots of people who made a fediverse account easy enough, but just end up back on the algorithm platforms as there's no effort required for discovery.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Except for the fact that most people dont like jumping through multiple hoops to register an account / need to do research beforehand to do it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    What is instance? There are two buttons - sign up for mastodon or choose another instance, I just want to register etc etc.

    People dont care for decentralization, they want to sign up and share a link.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Cool. Doesn't change the fact that for a regular joe, "sign up" is what they want to click and then share a link or follow some guy. Not do research on what platform to join, what instance, what's an instance, what happens if you join a wrong one. The fediverse is a gimmick that most people don't need.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    personally i prefer bluesky just because the interface is more natural to me (and it's just easier - but also because aew twitter is there and there's more fandoms over on it) but i wish more people would embrace bridgyfed so that we don't have to choose.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Have you tried using elk.zone? It mimics Twitter’s interface and has some great additional features (like zen mode)

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