[Javalicious]

I resonated with Ezra Klein's "exodus shocks" concepts. With Musk at the helm of X, it just seems like there's the periodic random outrage that pushes people to at least try other alternatives (and maybe stop logging into X itself). Some of it sticks. I ended up with a Mastodon account and it just seems much more chill. YMMV I guess.

[madeofpalk]

There's a step before that - with Musk owning Twitter, the 'market' has clearly seen opportunity for competition that did not exist before.

Twitter has been Twitter forever, and Meta never decided to compete with it directly. Until now.

[slashdev]

I’ve been using X the last two months and it’s been quite stable. I don’t see that as a reason to avoid it.

[huytersd]

They seem to have lost people that I used to follow. Kind of a bummer because I don’t know where they migrated to.

[nostromo]

Some interesting people left Twitter, but they mostly left social media entirely.

I don’t think anyone interesting is actually on threads. It seems to be a graveyard with only Instagram influencers posting boring influencer stuff.

[CharlesW]

> I don’t think anyone interesting is actually on threads.

It depends on who you think is interesting, since some communities are a better match for Elon's X. My experience is that my Threads feed is already more interesting than my X feed.

[soneca]

Yep. Bluesky is definitely not “winning”, but 3 or 4 fiction writers that I like moved there and now I find a nice place to be. To be honest, if one more cartoonist that I really like and post new art everyday on Twitter moved out of it, I would not use it anymore that about once or twice a month.

[add-sub-mul-div]

The way I'd say it is that Bluesky and Lemmy are "winning" for me. I wouldn't wish absorbing the eternal September from Twitter and Reddit on an enemy, let alone my own hangouts.