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Comment by itomato | Hacker News Reader

Why are people using what used to be Twitter in seriousness?

Its where the community is despite the loud minority online pretending thats not the case

X is not even in the top 10 active user count. It ranked just above Quora and below Reddit. It's just not a super popular platform. X fans constantly have to denigrate everyone else as a "loud minority".

Clearly, "the community" is not all on X. If it were, why would we be having conversations here on Hacker News?

Anyways, the real answer you'll still see some X links here is that

1. A not insignificant amount of people in our industry are aligned with the X CEO and the positions he expresses through his accounts, Grok, etc., and

2. Pornography

Are you confusing X with Bluesky? I hardly see any porn on Twitter, but all the time on Bluesky.

In general the art community - not just limited to pornographers - seems to have stuck by X despite all the AI stuff. When I see people posting art it's almost always an X link, even for artists who have accounts on bsky or instagram or whatever.

I believe you, but our personal experiences are simply the opposite here. I do see X links occasionally but Instagram, BlueSky, and even Tumblr seem dominant. (Often with some presence on at least one of Patreon, Substack, Cara, or Kofi).

because no alternative has ever reached the same level of engagement and most people don't care about misplaced virtue signalling

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