How Twitter's descent into chaos is paving the way for a new web | TechCrunch
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The post-Twitter era has spurred the development and further growth of numerous social networks that prioritize brief posts, from open source standbys
  • WytchEnglish
    6·
    5 months ago

    If by “new web” you mean “social media” and by “paving the way” you mean “scrambling to become the next aggregator” then yeah, that’s a thing that seems to be happening.

  • catculationEnglish
    4·
    5 months ago

    I’ve a feeling that X will adopt to Atproto or ActivityPub if bluesky gains popularity. Lately there is a lot of buzz about fedivers and these tech billionaire are in race to control it the same way they did with internet.

    • dez@lemmy.mlEnglish
      7·
      5 months ago

      If I understand the purpose of the article, a lot of people aren’t liking the new ways of using Twitter, and then they search for alternatives. Because of that, platforms like Mastodon gain more popularity .

      At the end of the day, Musk is making other platforms bigger, and that seems excellent. Imo, Twitter has its uses if you can filter what you want to see as much as possible. You have to make a very large filter.