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by sph 34 days ago
Who the heck follows Github on Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, Instagram, Reddit, Facebook, WeChat?

Wherever they posted, there’s at this time two articles on the Hacker News front page. Sounds like they have reached their audience.
1 comments
lynndotpy 34 days ago
It's to point out how comparatively small X is. It's in the same ballpark as Pinterest and Quora.

Github decided not to use email (which every Github customer has), their sites, or their otherwise active BlueSky.

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linhns 34 days ago
It's not small in the tech community though. Users are not distributed evenly among platforms. Others may have more users but not as many tech users.
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lynndotpy 34 days ago
Maybe, but I don't use it and nobody I know uses it. It's a very politically divisive platform, and users without an account can't post on there.

There are plenty of reasons not to use X, but that's not what's in contention. X.com was the _only_ platform they shared this information on.

It bears repeating: Github decided not to use email, which every GitHub customer has, and Github chose not to use their sites, and GitHub chose not to use their otherwise active BlueSky.

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