I just read about Mastodon for the first time today. With Musk seeming bent on turning Twitter into another marginal platform like Truth Social the question is, can anything replace Twitter? Or will it survive on its own inertia as a de-facto common platform because while even as it gets worse, no alternative is clearly better?
I'm sure internet sociologists are following this avidly. While there are models that can be used to follow this (like Myspace or Livejournal), nothing of that has been near to the size or inertia that Twitter has.
I imagine Facebook strategists are looking very closely at this too.
But my guess is that Twitter's collapse will look more like LJ than Myspace, at least in remaining in some form of skeleton form though much reduced as people move their stuff elsewhere.
I consider that technical information, not political. The fact that a shamelessly for-profit organization chose the code base for its platform is a vote (heh) in favor of the code's reliability. More implementations, more users = greater chance of bugfixes and improvements. On the other hand, Truth Social has been having stability issues. The extent to which those are due to the underlying code base vs. poor implementation choices made with it, indicate issues Mastodon may run into soon.
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Date: 2022-11-08 06:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-11-08 07:01 pm (UTC)I imagine Facebook strategists are looking very closely at this too.
But my guess is that Twitter's collapse will look more like LJ than Myspace, at least in remaining in some form of skeleton form though much reduced as people move their stuff elsewhere.
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