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Just what Lemmy needs, a thread that kills engagement because megathreads don't work. I know most of us don't have apps with keyword filters yet (lifesaver), but I'd much rather have too much of something than not enough while trying to grow a community. Annoying growing pains over ghost town any day.
My .02
Megathreads work on breaking news where users will want to constantly refresh. Topic megathreads never work. Not enough material is developing and no one knows when to check the megathread.
Completely fair distinction. Thanks
Make an Elon musk community
AOL is still a thing. kinda. twitter isnt going to die, its going to fade out into irrelevance
So are MySpace and Digg. Some other (smaller) social networks have failed entirely, but the really entrenched ones don't seem to ever really die off completely.
Does anyone else genuinely think Twitter/X will die anytime soon with the latest changes Elmo is making?
depends on your definition of “die”. it is not going to go offline, but it will certainly cease to be of any moderate utility to most people and will cease to have any meaningful cultural impact within a couple of years at this rate
Yeah, even if it costs money to maintain, Elon will hang onto it. It's useful to him.
i do think there is a (unlikely) scenario where tesla’s value begins to shrink which causes a significant liquidity problem for twitter since there is no way the site is generating meaningful revenue now, but i think that kind of speculation is pointless in the end since who knows what similarly rich doofus he could get to bail him out.
The loans are due soon, and were guaranteed by Tesla stock, so it’s fairly likely.
tesla will be bought by one of the big guys when they collectively take all of teslas marketshare with affordable, repairable, un-recalled versions of its products.... someone will want the name. it certainly wont be for the manufacturing lines.
It's the 5th most hit site globally, it's going nowhere.
The question is, will it remain that way in the coming years?
MSN messenger was at one point the world's most used communicator app too.
Most of those are not profitable...
And Twitter is saddled with literally billions of dollars of debt it wasn't a year ago, and payments start soon.
Either he's going to have to start paying obscene amounts of his own money to keep it at its current level, or he drastically cuts workers and/or infrastructure.
For this to have worked, he'd have to take one of the popular websites in the world (that doesn't make a profit) and make it mote popular while monetizing it.
So it maintaining it's old position just isn't enough. And things can (likely will) nosedive soon.
Platforms rarely completely die, as in they shut down, they just become irrelevant. Digg still around despite being long supplanted by Reddit, MySpace still exists after everyone went to Facebook, but nobody cares about them anymore.
Twitter/X will end up the same, unless some real catastrophic happens financially or legally.
Why would anybody think like it'll die soon?
Because of how Elmo is running Twitter/X
I still think it'll take 3-5 years before it "dies"
Yeah it won’t die “soon” because it will be a zombie like Facebook for many many years to come. But retrospectively I think there’s a good chance we’ll remember the Elon takeover as the day it died.
I think it's going to have a slow death.
Right now it's going through it's "Lady gaga phase", doing more and more ridiculous things. Maybe this is the equivalent of a meat dress.
Eventually people will grow tired of the drama. Either it is a good product at the end (Lady Gaga is a pretty bloody great singer) or it'll be dead.
I mean, myspace.com still exists
With all the public talking about it and not understanding that they are giving the popularity, im pretty sure its not going to die soon.
Its weird, some people seem to be on things just because daddy elon fucks is related to it. Its sickening.
"Megathread" for one of the 25 Technology magazines on this site doesn't really work. That concept might work on Reddit but it really doesn't work here with all of the tech forums being so distributed. There can't be common sizing of rules unfortunately. I'm still scrolling past dozens of the same article, or 6 other megathreads for the same topic.
Why are so many people opposing this mega thread? Why do they care so much what "daddy" elon fucks do? Its unbelievable to me
Yea this aint gonna fix people from making their own posts about it anyways...
People are obsessed with Elon musk
The twitter/musk posts are getting large amount of upvotes so just figured that's why people keep posting.
Ah yes let's bury all discussion of anything relating to any of those companies. 😒