I’ve never been on twitter, but I’m not that surprised so many of us here were driving engagement.
Surely this could be good, right?
If celebrities need to be accessible to their biggest fans, maybe it would induce them to leave the birdsite? And if this is as big a migration as the article suggests, it has the potential to snowball in network effects, giving other influential users one less reason to feel chained to a dumpster fire.
I thought the same. Now plataforms have a target audience to focus. The accounts move, the artists have to follow, the rest has a reason to move as well.
The suspension could have wide-reaching effects on pop culture globally.
Damn, real shame that.
Oh well.
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Honest quetion, what’s a stan account?
A stan is a highly devoted fan of a particular person, like a musician, actor, author or influencer. The term comes from a song by Eminem, and stans often interact on Twitter […]
From How To Geek.
Originally it was a portmanteau of “stalker-fan.” Think “super fan.”
It was actually a reference to Eminem’s song “Stan” about an insane fan who murders his family or something.
It has been suggested the name “Stan” is a portmanteau of the words “stalker” and “fan”, though it is unknown if the name was chosen with that intention. The term “stan” has since become an internet slang term for an extremely obsessed fan of something or someone and is derived from the song’s title.
Let’s take that etymology one step further: “fan” comes from “fanatic”, so a stan is a stalker fanatic. Which somehow has become a positive term in some circles.
Ooooooohhh! I never made that connection.
Well, if they are smart they will just migrate to Bluesky.
I gave up on trying to get people to Mastodon.
What’s the problem? They’re just not sure which instance to go with?
The problem is having instances. If you tell the average Joe to join Mastodon and they see there’s 10 different links for Mastodon they’ll just give up and move on, it’s too much complicated effort for them.
this is such a nonsense argument, people navigate email just fine despite every single platform sending emails from their own domain.
Sure but you have to remember people are not tech savvy at all. They’re used to email, but they do not see the correlation with the fediverse. Try explaining that to the average Joe and see where that leads you.
It sounds like nonsense to you but it is the reality. The medium person don’t bother and just want a place where you create an account and that’s it.
Yeah, I feel like this should be surmountable. At worst, you skip the whole concept of federation and just tell them exactly where to sign up.
and this is why i get so tired of people saying it’s bad to have a big instance like mastodon.social, like bro do you fucking want the platform to be successful or not? it seems like people just want a small isolated place to circlejerk each other rather than something globally useful.
Yeah, I don’t get that. Federation is the option to have a hyper-custom server that does weird things, or to make your own server with blackjack and hookers if you don’t like your current one, without losing access to community and content. Most people aren’t nerds, though, so if you want plag-and-play an instance like lemmy.world is great.
If you want a small bubble you actually don’t want federation.
Its the absolute lack of algorithm. No, really. I know Mastodon toots it as a feature, but without an algorithm to keep people scrolling most people just close the app and do something else. People who don’t understand instances would just go to mastodon.social anyway, but since no mastodon instance is actively trying to keep its users engaged 24/7, people naturally realize they have better things to do than to use social media all say.
Which is better for humanity, but bad for retention.
Great, so the perverse incentives aren’t beatable then. Time to bug lawmakers, I guess?
On the bright side, Lemmy feels just about like Reddit to use, so that bodes well for us.
“The internet is the blue ‘e’ swirl thing on my computer’s home screen.”
Okay, so I’m going to tell you where the new Twitter is in the blue swirly.
I know, I know, easier said than done to actually guide them through, but if they’re at that level it’s just a different setting on the magic box.
I think there’s a cultural difference too. Bluesky is much closer to (a subsection of) twitter culture pre-musk than anything else. Weather you think that’s good or bad is a matter of taste but it is probably the easiest thing to get people who like pre-musk twitter to switch to.
And the fact that bluesky has many features mastodon does not. Namely, an algorithm.
It’s the instances as well as the fact that there’s no algorithm. You have to make your own feed. This means most people leave because there’s nothing keeping them engaged like other social media.
Yeah it seems like most Brazilian twitter users have gone to bluesky. I’m glad that so few went to threads actually.
Like the “Come to Brazil!” comments on every music video or concert on youtube.
Why are they all Brazilian?
Hey I’ve had a couple chats with Taylor. She’s real nice. Cool to see her posted on lemmy.