Facebook and Twitter are not bot ridden ghost towns... but anyways, I'll make the opposite prediction: Reddit is going to turn out just fine and this episode will quickly become a memory from the past.
It’s an absolute ghost town in terms of engaging, original, content. Their user numbers are obviously buoyed by absolute junk accounts and it’s been obviously so since Musk fired most of the company.
FB is a boomer & genX meme-pocalypse that’s absolutely slathered with ads and most millennials & genZ seemingly using it as a glorified contacts list. It’s a shadow of what it was.
It sounds like you’d just grown used to the previous manufactured consensus.
Meanwhile, the understanding of the rest of us has moved to understanding that hate sketch, & toxic environments resulting from it, restricts the speech of minorities.
But you’re ok with that as long as no MAGA racist is told to shut up, apparently, so don’t pretend you’re pro-free speech. You’re simply pro-racists.
In fairness, both the MAGAs and the tankies are pretty happy, but then there's precious little difference (or none).
I wouldn't call this state of affairs "free". More like spineless.
The opposite is true, old Twitter colluded with the FBI in suppressing political information like the Hunter Biden laptop case, where the FBI falsely labeled accounts as Russian propaganda. There was a lot of stuff like this in the Twitter files, yet the media conveniently failed to report on it.
God, you lot are so easy to grift…
That's an imperfect correlate of user experience. A lot of sites have banned NSFW content for the sake of their valuations in ways that have obviously agitated their userbase.
(1) This may not be true of other parts of the world, and in particular, it may not be true of countries outside the 'anglosphere'. (Anyone care to report on international FB health?)
(2) Even within the Anglosphere, there are still very specific pockets of FB which are viable. In my experience, they are usually attached to queer community and/or leftist organizing. FB activity has in fact picked up since the Muskpocalypse. I imagine it will pick up again now that the Fediverse is hitting the scaling wall imposed by using a protocol that is arguably exponential-ish big-O with federated server count. (https://hachyderm.io/@hrefna/110198847653604631)
I'm sort of hoping that Nostr takes off before BlueSky figures out a way of owning the fediverse. Or even Secure Scuttlebutt! Now that would be a weird timeline.
Nostr is great of course and everyone should just build on that.
Pivoting to cater to/exploit that market is not really possible for most of them now either.
You get what you decide to follow.
The irony.
The right lives off a fictional persecution complex tho so… your comment is hardly a surprise, or original.
Twitter misrepresents views and impressions. The "views" you see under the video are impressions. Presumably reached 24ish M views, 110ish M impressions on first episode.
Episode 3 has, presumably, 90M impressions and < .6M likes, < 0.170M retweets etc. The metrics (likes and retweets) are not particularly good for a supposedly high engagement video, are they?
We are speaking about 2-3 orders of magnitude difference.
For comparison, MKBHD video [1], 1.2 orders of magnitude difference between views and likes; Adam's video [2], 1.4 orders; 40 minute long video essay on House Md [3] (1.5M views with subscriber count of 0.15M) , 1.7 orders of magnitude.
Carlson's engagement has 2.17 orders of magnitude difference, while being as long as [1], longer than [2], and far shorter than [3].
All of the videos above are supposed to be far less "entertaining" and are expected to have far less engagement value, yet outperformed Carlson's thing.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvN5_GXlg2Y
Everyone kept going on about pressing the like button and smashing the subscribe button on YouTube for years.
I would not be surprised if people on YouTube use the like button more actively than people on Twitter.
Besides, is 1.7 orders of magnitude (from one of your examples) even significantly different from 2.1 orders of magnitude enough to draw any conclusions at all?
10^(2.1) / 10^1.7 gives us about 2.5x lower engagement in Carlson's video over some unknown guy's 40 minute long video on House Md.
Carlson's show averaged 4.3 million viewers on fox.
His latest episode on twitter has almost 16 million.
They have no obligation to any shareholders not to lie.
Can you, in good conscience, accept that 1 in 8 people saw this tweet [1]?
http://web.archive.org/web/20230616134055/https://twitter.co...
FB: don't know but I surely see almost no ads. I use mbasic.
Sheer quantity of users doesn't replace higher GDP cohorts.
No, it’s mostly just those. If you want to spend all your time in The Villages, feel free. Most sane people do not.