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by djtango 302 days ago
Ultimately Twitter is timely and has almost universal mindshare.

A few weeks ago when there was the pacific earthquake, I had family who were very close to a danger zone vacationing. Google was not sufficient for finding good local timely info as an outsider but twitter was.

I would never even think to check BlueSky or Mastodon, and my family will never have heard of them.

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Things have to be posted in those other places for your regular person to have a chance of hearing about them eventually. If everyone waits for some adoption threshold to support something then it will never reach that threshold.