Why YSK:
Although politicians and journalists often treat it like major platform, or even the "digital town square," X is fairly minor social media platform. The various Meta platforms (including Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger) have combined 10 billion monthly active users. X (Twitter) is about 5.5% that size. It trails behind not only the obvious giants like Meta, Google (YouTube) and TikTok (Douyin), but also well behind platforms that are exclusive to one country or region, like WeChat or Weibo, and behind "also-rans" like Snapchat, Reddit, and Pinterest.
X is not a major platform. It has continued to struggle with outages, trolling, user exodus, and now a little more than an Internet ghost town.
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TomMasz@lemmy.world · 76 pts · 24d
It's No. 1 in percentage of Nazis, though.
huppakee@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 24d
Totally unforgivable there are still so many politicians, reporters and self-respecting organisations on there.
Tja@programming.dev · 4 pts · 23d
Inertia. Much harder to "do something" in an enterprise than as an individual user.
Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de · 12 pts · 24d
Truth Social is probably higher
ji59@hilariouschaos.com · 7 pts · 24d
What about Trurh Social?
crank0271@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 24d
There's really just one guy, but he's quite active.
phar@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 24d
Yea but that's 100% Nazis
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social · 2 pts · 23d
With Meta paying Nazis that are too Nazi for X, not for long.
forbiddencherry@lemmy.today · 48 pts · 24d
Entire Fediverse on that chart would be 1.4, according to https://fediverse.observer/stats&months=12
nullify3112@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 24d
Fediverse monthly active users has been going down. I’m starting to notice my Mastodon feed not having the people I follow anymore, because of they consolidated their alternative social media in Bluesky only.
forbiddencherry@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 23d
Interesting. According to that chart it's been going up.
nullify3112@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 23d
It depends on the scale. I read it as the last few months going down.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 23d
Is that discounting Corporate Fakeverse (aka Threads)?
ilinamorato@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 24d
Wow, to fall behind Pinterest is quite an achievement (derogatory)
joe@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 24d
The only "social network" my teenager has asked permission to make an account on is Pinterest.
I was a little confused at the request, because in my mind Pinterest was a defunct site that no one used, but apparently it's popular with at least some of the younger generation.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 24d
I've come around slightly on Pinterest. Not fully--it's still vapid and there's a lot of attempted lock-in--but there is some good stuff on there, and its attempt at curating creativity is kind of refreshing.
locuester@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 23d
kids use it as a backdoor to access TikTok/Youtube shortform content.
FellowEnt@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 23d
I assumed it was a dying platform but then I found out why it's so popular again - kids uae it as a backdoor to access TikTok/Youtube shortform content.
Bleys@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 24d
For some reason Twitter specifically is like black tar heroin to politicians. Even post-Musk, left wing politicians like AOC and Bernie are still giga active on the platform.
JustDorky@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 23d
Sorry this comment is just too funny.
TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 24d
Why do people still use the Nazi pedophile app
unglueclass23@programming.dev · 2 pts · 23d
Niche content that either is hard to find elsewhere or you will be using something like TikTok which is in no way better.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 24d
I love looking at stuff like this and not knowing what half of these things are.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 24d
You dont have peeble on doop? Boomer.
Squirrelanna@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 23d
I have no interest in yoting anything on doop. I'd rather clagpost on greenglog
bandanawearingbanana@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 24d
I know all of them even if I don't have active accounts on there...
Edit: Actually the only ones I've never had an active account on are Messenger and Kuaishou. My datafootprint is an excavation site.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 23d
Has anyone ever used pinterest on purpose
unglueclass23@programming.dev · 6 pts · 23d
I even excluded it from my search engines results.
Tja@programming.dev · 0 pts · 23d
Yes
Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 23d
Why
Tja@programming.dev · 2 pts · 23d
It's useful when gathering ideas for a new project, like decorating a room, or building a garden, especially if you want to share it with someone.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 23d
Fair
ccunning@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 24d
Pinterest is a social network?
I kind of feel the same about YouTube, but I do know they have comments at least…
bandanawearingbanana@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 24d
Good riddance honestly.
Even when Jack was managing that shithole it was still a shithole. Magnitudes better than the nuclear wasteland it is now but a shithole none the less.
Btw the embeddedscience.org article you linked is, at least partly Ai generated.
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TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 24d
Its a self-suck fest for people who think of themselves as being "in media"
percent@infosec.pub · 9 pts · 24d
🤔 Even after reading the "Why YSK" section, I still don't know what to do with this information. Maybe I'm missing something that should be obvious? I've never been much of a social media guy
Focal@pawb.social · 8 pts · 23d
I think a lot of people are struggling to make the switch because "everyone is on twitter". A YSK like this might help people see that it really isn't true, and you can absolutely make the switch.
Tja@programming.dev · 3 pts · 23d
Make the switch... to Facebook? Or Instagram? Because you might have noticed, fediverse (or even bluesky) don't even show up there...
Focal@pawb.social · 2 pts · 23d
Yeah, you raise a good point there. I am not a huge social media person either, so I was kind of under the impression that instagram would be at the very least a little bit better than twitter, but I concede that it's entirely based on vibes.
Maybe it's for advertisers or start-ups who want to figure out where the biggest audience is?
But then again, how do we know these numbers aren't just bots?
Guess it's a weird side thing for me. On the one hand, I probably won't use this knowledge for anything, but I'm glad to have heard it, if nothing else. Weird.
bstix@feddit.dk · 2 pts · 23d
No, if you don't use it, you're not missing anything.
It's the users, advertisers, investors and politicians, who should know if they still believe it to be an important platform.
kandoh@reddthat.com · 7 pts · 23d
The difference is every journalist in the world is addicted to twitter and everything spoken or written about in the news is just what they were talking about on twitter yesterday
cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 23d
Which is why I don't bother to watch the news anymore. I can go straight to the source. I read some print news and that's about it.
boaratio@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 23d
I interviewed at a company in San Francisco that split an office space with Pinterest, and I casually asked during the interview if anyone actually uses Pinterest and the HR person said that the company I was interviewing with was moving to another location because Pinterest bought the entire building. This was a huge building in downtown San Francisco. I still don't know who uses Pinterest, but apparently a lot of people use it.
cheeseburger@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 24d
Twitter has American politicians, celebrities, press, and corporations, as well as world leaders and they all still use it to blabber publicly, so it doesn't need to cater the the proles.
steelplatedmech@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 23d
Yeah, while it is draw for majority of people it is the reason I stayed away from it because the concept of social media brought to you by TMZ sounded like a nightmare. But, those who want to feel closer to celebrities or get the opportunity to go viral love it.
Might be overlap between those who like sharing personal things on social media, and those who don't see a problem with things like meta glasses due to finding the concept of not putting your entire life on social media bizzare.
SorryImLate@piefed.social · 5 pts · 24d
There has to be a massive overlap in the Meta communities but even so, they've probably got half the world's population feeding them data. That's pretty terrifying.
tidderuuf@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 24d
Is there any actual 3rd party verification of the users or is it just "trust me bro!"?
gedaliyah@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 24d
These things are notoriously difficult to measure accurately, but this is from
StatisticaStatista, which has a reputation for pretty good metrics. At the very least, one would expect their metrics to be comparable across the analysis, if not necessarily a perfect measure of absolute numbers.Edit: thanks for catching the typo.
Tja@programming.dev · 1 pts · 23d
You almost got the name of your source right, good job!
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 24d
For a moment I thought "wow didn't know Snapchat is so popular" ...
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 24d
because twitter exists just for nazis and paedophiles.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 23d
It's the accessibility factor that's important. It's called the "digital town square" not just because of the user count (which isn't high compared to Facebook or Whatsapp) but because of how easy it is to access. Musk's changed that and now you need to log in to see some (all?) xeets, but... most of the social media on that chart requires login and/or app, I think reddit is the most notable exception (or was, now they also require login to use the web frontend I guess). But then reddit requires you to actually click on the posts, which is more effort, whereas xitter just shows you everything in your feed, so if a politician or celebrity's xeet is in it, you're seeing it.
Idk, there's just something about it that screams it's better for announcements and such than most other social media platforms.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 23d
You'd think a fluffed up BBS would be easily replaceable.
jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 24d
still has orders of magnitude better ui than instagram