The exodus from X to Bluesky has happened – the era of mass social media platforms is over | Gaby Hinsliff
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There’s comfort in being surrounded by like-minded people, but challenge is important, and we may have to look for it elsewhere, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

It does indeed look like the social media landscape is fracturing into separate tribes. Whether this is good, who knows.

One quote from the article is this: “X for the rightwing and the raging; centrists and policy nerds on Bluesky; people who hate politics on Threads or Instagram; Gen Z on TikTok; boomers on Facebook”.

  • Chozo@fedia.io
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    3 days ago

    Well, Lemmy isn’t really in the running since it’s a link aggregator, and not a microblogging platform.

    But that said, it would be nice to see Fediverse platforms mentioned. Mastodon and dozens of adjacent platforms exist, too, but never see a mention in any articles.

    I really wish somebody could get a decent, populated Misskey instance spun up. I think that would be more attractive to people, due to the features more closely resembling those on Twitter than Mastodon’s do. It seems to be doing pretty well in Japan, not sure why we haven’t picked up on it as heavily in the west.