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Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week / A ‘majority' of the new users are from the US, indicating that people are searching for a new platform as an alternative to X. (www.theverge.com)

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[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 36 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

An even better alternative is to replace it with nothing. The Twitter-like messaging paradigm is only good for trivia and rumor-mongering.

[–] moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Some use/used it as an RSS feed for researchers sharing papers.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Know what else is great for that? RSS feeds.

[–] moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah but no. It's not an RSS feed per se. It's researchers sharing what they publish and what other publish with ints or resumes sometimes. Then people would comment and researchers reply.

[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Man what evet happened to those

[–] brilokuloj@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Never went away, they're still used by independent websites. A potential hurdle was that Firefox dropped native support at one point

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

...and a lot that are not that independent. I never stopped using RSS. It's only because it's not so easily monetized that it's not more widely known, I bet.

[–] Enekk@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

I used Twitter for emergency updates, saved me multiple times.

[–] marx2k@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

...or following people and interests you want to follow and keeping up with their updates.

ffs stop gatekeeping social media

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The facebook/mastadon format is much better for individuals, no? And Reddit/Lemmy for niches, as long as they're supplemented by a wiki or something.

And Tumblr. The way content gets spread organically, rather than with an algorithm, is actually super nice.

IMO Twitter's original premise, of letting novel, original, but very short thoughts fly into the ether has been so thoroughly corrupted that it can't really come back. It's entertaining and engaging, but an awful format for actually exchanging important information, like discord.

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If i ever wan tto know what Natalie Portman ate for breakfast, i'll walk into the ocean

[–] dezmd@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Everyone knows it was hot grits, and she poured them down your pants.

Just /. things.