 For people worried about their following on X / Twitter, it's really truly not worth it. I've left behind 74K followers. I don't miss having my content on there at all, and it has clearly *not* affected traffic even in the slightest bit. It's been a week since my last content posted from the website to X, so I have a pretty good look at traffic now, there was literally *no* drop-off, and the first few days after leaving X traffic went up ๐คท 43 comments
  @ChrisWere @sol_hsa @gamingonlinux and while it matches human behavior and incentives, it's bonkers they would help unless embarrassed into it  @djotaku @ChrisWere @gamingonlinux Thing is, those customer service people are at work. Why is it completely impossible to contact customer support in any other way than to publicly embarass the company? @sol_hsa @djotaku Consider how much it costs a company to handle a customer support case. For many products and services, even a single support case costs more than their margin. It's cheaper for them to lose you as a customer. The only (economic) reason to offer support in the first place is to avoid reputational damage.  @gamingonlinux I've always felt that Twitter massively overstated its relevance in the social media space. I'd imagine you get more traffic from places like Reddit? @ChrisWere Google is primarily where we get our traffic, Reddit can be a huge boost too  @gamingonlinux Hmm.. Might it have something to do with the fact that you're about gaming on #Linux and, well... all the Linux nerds are on here? ๐ (typo, edited needs for nerds) @elduvelle @gamingonlinux probably good for that audience, but I was keen to see if we could release our recent game without any Twitter promotion. It beat our expectations and most users were from Windows  @gamingonlinux@mastodon.social I'd bet 80% of them were inactive users who have forgotten to delete their Twitter account. And the remaining 20% are likely spiritual followers of a certain 1930s/1940s German leader with a distinct mustache, so I suppose their traffic isn't something you'd care for anyway ๐  @gamingonlinux I found exactly the same thing. Right after I stopped using Twitter (but long before I actually deleted my account), I had a decision to make about whether or not to let my blog keep auto-tweeting new posts. I checked how many people were actually following those links. It was something like four that year, and it had been going down and down since even before Musk drove it into the ground. @gamingonlinux@mastodon.social I wish some people would understand that. And yet, a rather big streamer is still using as the only platform to post big updates on, just linking it from everywhere else. There is an ever increasing chance that a large proportion of those 74k accounts are dead/bot accounts. @gamingonlinux I think the only people that need a centralized social media like Twitter are those who peddle in going viral. (Eg Kardashian) Vs gaming on Linux which is about news  @gamingonlinux I think I topped out at 1800 followers on Twitter. I've long since surpassed that on Mastodon. It helps that there's no algorithm which hates me around here! That's pretty much confirmed by Heise, one of the larger German magazine outlets. CC: @hannu_ikonen @gamingonlinux  @gamingonlinux @eniko A lot of the #misterfpga people are missing from here, though. I have to check Bluesky to see if theyโre there. @gamingonlinux If you are primarily YouTube based then this would not affect you. But many people derive huge amounts of traffic from Twitter. I think it's an oversimplification to assert that your use case applies to everyone else. Unfortunately, a lot of people are going to remain on Twitter. What we need is crossposting first, especially from governments. @mattsheffield iโm not YouTube based, and Twitter has *never* been a good source of traffic, this has been repeated by many many people and groups @gamingonlinux Maybe you are not Twitter based, but for me, Twitter has always been a fantastic source of traffic. I wish I could replace it but unfortunately, the fediverse and Bluesky are not anywhere close. @mattsheffield You don't even have 4K followers on Twitter, so that's both surprising and not so, your reach in general is just...small @gamingonlinux Seems like you should look closer there. You should stop projecting your traffic experience onto others. @mattsheffield I was going by Discover Flux, which I assumed you were on about for your work stuff which is why you wanted the reach. I'm not projecting anything, and this attitude you seem to be giving me is now annoying. I was giving my own experience. @mattsheffield Anyway, muting now, I don't see sense on talking over this further, it's working out well for me and X is a far-right shithole platform now, cya :) @gamingonlinux yeah, people may follow you there but their attention is on a different platform now Muting this now, but in the end this was just my experience I wanted to share. You *can* make other platforms work, if you put in just a bit of effort. X is terrible, Twitter is dead. And I hope to see more people move on from it. @gamingonlinux It's worse than dead. It's a national security risk and a danger to democracy run by an insane lunatic. @gamingonlinux Hands down axing my Shitter account best thing ever, i rather take the smaller communities here on Mastodon and over at Bluesky.  @gamingonlinux I moved on 2 years ago (fully deleted my account), and every day Space Karen does yet another thing that makes me glad I did.  @gamingonlinux isnt it basically overrun with bots too? i dont get why anyone would see a point engaging when theres no reason to believe youre even talking to a person. @gamingonlinux ๐ It's very easy: If there are still users on X, they aren't really democrats. Persons/ Institutions that consider themselves democrats can't (mustn't) be on X. @gamingonlinux deleted my personal account earlier this year, my mental has been great. @gamingonlinux I think the important part is, leave a social network in steps and tell people you will move. Leave a new place to find you instead of instantly deleting an account. |
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@gamingonlinux Only thing I miss from twitter (apart from a couple social contacts I lost) was that the as a customer support channel it worked. Have an issue with something? Just complain out loud on twitter. The customer support will contact you promptly.