@tilefan@lemm.ee 👍🏽 For some reason, after the lockdowns, it was when things started to change. There was Elon/Twitter exodus. Then the Reddit exodus. These two events made a huge impact than all the efforts combined prior to it.

But it’s still hard to pinpoint what changed. I mean, media coverage was, I think similar as in the first 10 years, it was always about “Twitter alternative” from mass media. I guess what Elon and Reddit did are the trigger point and not the media coverage of a “Twitter/Reddit alternative”?

@gcvsa@mstdn.plus True. It’s why I’m in favour with Elon doing all he can to “improve” Twitter. 😅😅😅😝😝 He’s driving growth elsewhere!

@SomeGuy69@lemmy.world Yep! And their content policies are not crazy and their moderators are not trigger happy like YouTube’s. 😅

Sad day indeed.

@abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us Probably funds, at least it’s the usual reason.

Then again, they survived that long side-by-side with a behemoth that is YouTube, it is indeed curious why they’re shutting down now.

@nanoUFO

> Sooner rather than later

Because there must be bugs. It’s a feature. ^_~