There is literally no other realistic alternative too it; they're simply all too small. I still follow many trusted news sources and politicians on it as well as fandoms.
this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2024
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Because there are a lot more people, breaking news, and content on there compared to anywhere else.
Because there's still a strong football/soccer community there, along with Reddit
Yeah. Even the largest leagues and teams are basically impossible to follow on anything but Reddit and Twitter. For smaller teams? Nothing else existsβ¦
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I guess it's because a lot of local news channels and personalities still use twitter.
Mostly because I like to occasionally fuck around with the conspiracy crowd.
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Really only to get notifications of weather stuff from my local NWS office.
My entire fandoms are there. Also twitter is ok if you follow the right people, you don't depend on the trending list and you dgaf about follower count.
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Research. Many people I'm interested in still use Twitter. And I hate how Nitter instances globally have started to become rate limited or outright obliterated by Twitter API weirdness/
Knowing what I know, Iβm not. Mastodon is good, but not the same. There needs to be a publicly run version of Twitter, with same algorithms.
I don't have an insta, so I'm not on threads. there's no scaled up site to even come close to challenging twitter.
I'm still there because there is pretty much nowhere else to go. once one of these places actually starts being as active and engaging as twitter I'm going there.
I second this!
Even Mastodon is not even cutting it close.
I literally donβt give a single fuck what people are involved with producing the software I use
Sports. I can get a hundred tweets of highlights almost instantly on Twitter.
I'm not. Twitter was dead to me the moment Musk took over.
I never used X. I use Facebook
That's... baffling, coming from a Lemmy user. Why are you okay with Mark Zuckerberg watching everything you interact with?
I'm a bit of an exhibitionist and I'm glad that Mark is watching.