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submitted 10 months ago by uthredii@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Thirdborne@lemmy.world 110 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I don't get why people still use that platform. It's so hostile to the users. This is an election year and we're just going to give him all this influence? Society is a big dumb animal.

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I have never seen the appeal to Twitter. It's never seemed like a useful part on social media. I have never heard a change and go "well now I will check it out."

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It was extremely useful in sports for quick in-game updates, especially from third-party groups (like the news beat reporters, versus getting info from the team).

It's really entrenched, though: Even with all of the chaos and controversy, it's hard to find articles that reference something that happened in a game that don't embed some tweets (or whatever they hell they're called now) for the video. It's extremely frustrating. I think, in part, that's why the hockey community here on lemmy isn't taking off - no one wants to link to Twitter, and there are basically no other sources.

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

ESPN's app seems to do my updates and I don't have everyone's opinion on it either. I mean I guess I can see the meme angle. But I think that would find it's way anyways.

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

ESPN's app doesn't note when a player is missing off the bench or something like that. The reporters at the game notice it and X it out.

[–] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

It always felt like a big void to shout into, unless you have some sort of following that listens.

[–] CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago

I tried Mastodon recently... It rules. Would recommend.

[–] fosforus@sopuli.xyz 7 points 10 months ago

I think it's mostly because everyone else is. Momentum is difficult and slow to change.

[–] nevetsg@aussie.zone 1 points 10 months ago

It is the only platform where I can follow specific people without a algorithm getting in the way. They all need to choose a new one to move to.