Twitter wasn’t just software or visible leadership (for better or worse) but an entire important slice of Internet history.

  • Phantom_Engineer@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    That’s the thing. You can’t turn the clock back. As fediverse alternatives pop up and the social media old guard slowly declines, there will be a lot of fragmentation.

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      1 year ago

      I imagine the pareto distribution will apply to federated communities as well

    • Randy Resnick@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      Right! You have to look at context. Remember the first time you got on (Usenet/Compuserve/AOL/Friendster) or whatever your first Internet experience was? Twitter was a new thing. Now there are 20 Twitter look-alikes but none can go back to the novelty.