I recently published a short essay in the Dirt newsletter about how using the internet is becoming more like watching TV, with TikTok as the main vector of that transition.
No real replacement? Find some subreddit, join a Discord server—most people I know aren't deleting their Twitter account, but they're migrating back to Tumblr or whatever isn't algorithmically shoving stupid down their feeds
Yes - I would say those are alternative ways to be online but not a replacement for Twitter - they don't fulfill the same needs (global public social network where lots of important people hang out constantly in the same place).
I have to believe most of the users calling for Twitter to implode are doing so performatively.
Yes, I assume so too. I don't think anyone still active on Twitter really wants it to go away (even if they hate it).
No real replacement? Find some subreddit, join a Discord server—most people I know aren't deleting their Twitter account, but they're migrating back to Tumblr or whatever isn't algorithmically shoving stupid down their feeds
Yes - I would say those are alternative ways to be online but not a replacement for Twitter - they don't fulfill the same needs (global public social network where lots of important people hang out constantly in the same place).