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   Jacek Wesołowski (jzillw@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2024 16:48:54 JST Jacek Wesołowski

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   @glassbottommeg Probably depends on the region, but the normies in my neighbourhood like Telegram. It's a communicator, an IRC-like and a platform for one-way broadcasts, all in one package.

   Meanwhile, my gaming folk have moved on to Discord.

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     Megan Fox (glassbottommeg@peoplemaking.games)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2024 16:48:55 JST Megan Fox

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     Oh, huh- doing a quick check, apparently normies didn't go to Threads either? Threads apparently settled out to just, brands talking at brands, and a place for preexisting Instagram influencers to post text. lol.

     Pretty sure normies shrugged and just went to TikTok, Instagram, or- you know, fucked off to meatspace to do normie things.

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     Megan Fox (glassbottommeg@peoplemaking.games)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2024 16:48:56 JST Megan Fox

     Seeing folks talking about BlueSky since it opened, but seemingly not realizing it's likely on a downward trajectory?

     Now that it's public, it's the same as BeReal and the rest: a Twitter clone. Well, except it's worse than those, it's less featured. It's very likely toast.

     Mastodon's got a unique selling point to at least keep interest funneling back. BlueSky had that, but basically fumbled the federation ball when they realized normies didn't care. They decided to just be Twitter—but then the normies went to Threads for their advert-algo slop.

     EDIT: BlueSky is now basically a biodome for Weird Twitter / Terminally Online Shitposter's Club, and we'll see if that's self supporting. I am in that culture! But. Uh. Yeah.