[badsectoracula]

Twitter has a TON of active users though and those aren't going anywhere.

Hell, those that did leave Twitter did it to move to Bluesky which is basically Twitter under a different banner.

Even if people move away from specific instances of some form of technology (like Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon or whatever) they are not necessarily moving away from the idea/tech iself (like microblogging in this example).

Same with other social media: notice how after "Reddit gone shit" the people who felt like that and did move away didn't move back to forums or whatever, they went to Reddit-like boards like Lemmy.

[amrocha]

Active users on twitter has gone down massively the past 4 years! As far as we know, because the company doesn’t report numbers as proactively as it used to.

And sure, you can say people just moved to other platforms, but I don’t think you can substantiate that either.

Personally I just dropped all twitter likes, and a lot of my old twitter friends did too. We have discord servers now.

But it’s hard to have a discussion like this without data and we’re never gonna have the data. So you have to use qualitative data instead.