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Why? I don’t mean this as a dig against the tech, since I’m not familiar with it, or with BlueSky, but where and why is there demand for a new social media product? I’ve certainly come to view social media as so close to useless that I don’t use it, and it seemed to me that e.g. Twitter becoming X or Reddit blackouts were impetuses that people eventually were thankful for as they left the platforms.

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Twitter is among the top three websites that has organized my life over the past fifteen years or so. It's now totally collapsed.

I like having a place to post little things. I like keeping up with other people posting little things.

It isn't Twitter, but we don't have Twitter anymore, so. Just kinda giving things a go. I don't think we really can have "twitter" anymore, those days are past.

But yeah, that's just BlueSky. AT isn't geared towards a specific thing, like it is not a social networking protocol. It's kind of like if RSS was Git, if I squint.

Twitter (X) is doing great and has added tons of new features.

What do you mean it's totally collapsed? I use it daily.

Ok elon-simp, unfortunately most of the users I engage with left because elon is toxic. Twitter is now only tolerable by other elon-simps.

Besides your insults, can you provide any examples of Elon being "toxic" on twitter?

There's tons of people on Twitter who don't like Elon, so that part of your statement is false.

Please don't start or perpetuate flamewars on HN. They're tedious, nasty, not what this site is for, and destroy what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Virtually everyone I know left. That's the most important part of a social network. What's left is almost exclusively things I do not care about. Many of those new features contributed to its decline.

I can see how that would ruin the platform for you.

Doesn't mean it collapsed, but I get the point of your language now.

In the same vein, it doesn't mean it hasn't collapsed because you still use it.

No, but the statistics tip in the favor that it's doing better than ever.

X just rated #1 news iOS app in 163 countries.

"The statistics"

That's my argument, #1 news iOS app means nothing

Making social connections seems to be a hugely popular usecase for the internet. Even in its dial-up modem days the things I remember most are USENET and BBSes. People will continue to abandon and switch social media platforms, but I don't think that means they want fewer social media options.

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