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Fewer people are using Elon Musk’s X as the platform struggles to attract and keep users, according to analysts (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

I never liked Twitter to begin with, once it became an unabashed environment for hate it was a piece of cake to close my account.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

But Lonnie said they're doing great? /s

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Well, he says X is a free speech platform when it clearly isn't. Blud can't even take a joke.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

X will be dead any day now people! Any day now!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Yeah people keep posting these articles and celebrating as if it's not still a very relevant social media platform. I am concerned it will take so long to "die" that there might actually be time for a revival.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Good.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

He drove me back into using RSS after more than a decade for staying up to date. Much better for the mental health. Thankfully, since Wordpress and also some other CMS have the RSS feature enabled by default, many websites have it even if they’re not advertising it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

WordPress powers over 40% of the web, so that's a very large number of sites/blogs that have RSS. WordPress has sites per category/tag too, so you can subscribe just to a subset of posts. For example, I'm subscribed to TheFlightDeal.com but just for flights from San Francisco (https://www.theflightdeal.com/category/flight-deals/sfo/feed/).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

It's built into Mastodon too

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

I only follow specific youtubers and artists. If stray away from my specific feed, Twitter is too scary lol. I am at a loss for good social media though. It seems like most social media sites have just gotten worse over the past decade.

I guess there's pros an cons to it all. Pro: less time wasted on social media Con: I've missed out on some information that is sometimes good to know.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

It seems Twitter isn't the only one on the decline trend. Good job, burgerlanders.

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