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Never had Twitter to begin with but it was useful for seeing current events and comments. But ngl, kinda love watching it and musk go down in flames
It's very useful for sports and breaking news. Can see a normal (unverified) user burning through those limits quick. Great user engagement!
I’ve traded sports and breaking news commentary in Twitter in for Reddit about 10 years ago.
Not sure where to go now. Lemmy doesn’t have the volumes (yet at least) for the same amount of user engagement with these events. Perhaps it’s better like this anyway, no use being that engaged all the time.
I'm in a similar position when it comes to sports, football (soccer) in particular. The instances are still new, so I've been trying to engage in the comments and upvoting all the posts. It oddly reminds me of early Reddit when there were far fewer users and it felt more intimate, like you'd know everyone on the sports subreddit lol. I think instance on the Fediverse/Lemmy will continue to grow over time, just keep engaging :)
Also why things like emergency services really ought to be elsewhere... imagine people not getting the latest update because they ran out of tweets to view.
I started a Twitter account to follow the war in Ukraine at its very beginning. I was skeptical, but it won me over. Real time updates, easy to find expert takes, etc. Then Musk bought it, so I deleted my account the same day. No point sticking around on the titanic after the iceberg.
Warmapper is on mastodon by the way.
I got twitter during the arab spring to keep up with what happened. I used it mainly for things like that ever since. But it got bad during Trump's reign in America and worse even after Musk, so I used it mainly for porn lately and deleted my account yesterday together with my Reddit account. Not sure yet if this place will be a viable replacement, but willing to give it a chance and see what happens. Like you, hope to see both Musk and Spez go up in flames and live their lives out under some bridge (well, I am using a hyperbole here, they are (supposedly) human after all, so I hope they have a good life, regardless)
Same but for porn and art. Mostly porn.
https://twitterisgoinggreat.com/ 🍿 🍿 🍿 🍿 🍿 🍿
Ha! Fun site. Too bad the first post said they're sunsetting the site. Even they can't keep up with Musk's shenanigans.
I realised that after I posted it. I loved it!! There's also this one: https://elonmusk.today/