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0 pointscodetrotter1y ago0 comments

> It's a boon for competitors I suppose

I would think so too, but it’s not guaranteed.

Everyone thought for sure that Twitter would die with what Elon Musk has been doing to it, but somehow it seems to still be alive.

Likewise, everyone thought there would be a total exodus of users from Reddit to Lemmy or Kbin. And while those platforms did get a lot of new users, it feels like it didn’t reach the level of significance of the Digg -> Reddit mass-migration.

Therefore I am not convinced that people will actually be leaving Wordpress in droves. No matter how bad the situation currently seems for WP users.

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jeltz1y ago

Reddit is much worse today than before the exodus, it is recovering and maybe it will eventually fully recover. The issue with the Reddit exodus is that people fled to various different platforms and not just one. Plus some people likely just stopped using social media. This shattering to various different platforms stopped the momentum from totally killing Reddit. And maybe the same will also project WordPress.

I am still at Reddit but many subreddits are just not the same.

square_usual1y ago

Yeah, entire parts of reddit have been hollowed out and a lot of the subs have changed in many ways. I don't enjoy using reddit any more, even as someone who mostly didn't care about the protest.

phatskat1y ago

Apollo was the only reason I could tolerate Reddit. I only wanted to use Reddit on my phone, and most other apps were meh at best (especially the official app, eww). When Reddit pulled the API crap and Apollo officially shut down, I left and haven’t gone back. As someone who spent hours a day on Reddit, I had no qualms leaving.

As someone who worked years in the Wordpress space, I’m feeling the same about never touching it again which is a shame. I’ve enjoyed the projects, I’ve enjoyed contributing to the WP Stack Exchange and helping other people, and I’m done.

KerrAvon1y ago

Twitter is dead, it just hasn't stopped twitching yet. Turns out network effects are extremely durable. There is no time like the present to move to BlueSky if you haven't already.

rsynnott1y ago

I mean, I think it probably depends on your use case, but yeah, it is, at the very least, dying. I haven't felt the need to use my dormant account for just under two years (with the latest AI nonsense I should probably just delete it; I'd been holding off until now because, well, it's 18 years old, and I have some sentimental attachment).

Mastodon's been a largely acceptable replacement.

dhosek1y ago

Indeed, network effects are durable but not unbreakable. I haven’t deleted my Twitter account yet, mostly because there are those (increasingly rare) occasions when it’s necessary to log in to view some thread or the like, but when I find myself there, it always feels like a raging dumpster fire. Building a new network on BlueSky took a while, but it was definitely worthwhile, and while there are a handful of people I miss from Twitter, I have a good community that fills the need that Twitter used to. I suspect that for most tech people, Mastodon is going to be the new destination and there will never be a single destination for social networking again, but maybe that’s a good thing.

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