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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

Funny how when #BlueSky got the first few thousand accounts all of tech media immediately started tripping one over another covering it and getting a collective aneurysm. :blobcatroll:

Meanwhile, #Threadiverse gets ~70k accounts over 2 weeks, and (with the fine exception of #Techdirt) not a peep. :blobcatgiggle:

19 Jun 2023 at 13:51 | Open on mstdn.social
18 comments
Jeff

@rysiek

What a difference press agency representation makes.

19 Jun 2023 at 13:54 | Open on honeytree.social
Trebach

@rysiek Follow the money. Which outlets are owned by Conde Nast/Advance Publications and thus have a vested interest in not mentioning it?

19 Jun 2023 at 13:55 | Open on masto.ai
Christo

@trebach @rysiek Can you elaborate? Is Advanced Publications invested in Bluesky?

19 Jun 2023 at 13:58 | Open on dice.camp
Trebach

@christo @rysiek Advance Publications is a partial owner of Reddit and also owns Conde Nast. Both of them own a bunch of media outlets

19 Jun 2023 at 14:25 | Open on masto.ai
Christo

@trebach @rysiek Thanks. I didn't realize/ didn't find that they were invested in Reddit.

19 Jun 2023 at 14:44 | Open on dice.camp
joël
Jari Pennanen

@rysiek And Mastodon is adding 60k users per day. I don't think it's one to one comparison though, Twitter has much more varied crowd, from politicians to influencers, whereas Reddit is one entry in long line of geeky-sites like Digg and Slashdot was. Naturally coverage of Twitter alternatives is more interesting to media.

mastodon.social/@mastodonuserc

19 Jun 2023 at 13:59 | Open on twit.social
whereisk

@rysiek
Mapping 1-to-1 to what they knew worked before vs "instance?", "Can't retoot?", "Real timeline?", "no single entity to take me by the hand and feed me press ready statements"?

19 Jun 2023 at 14:00 | Open on mstdn.social
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

@whereisk oh yeah, how dare I expect of tech media some basic competency and willingness to learn in order to better explain perhaps somewhat unfamiliar concepts to their readers! 🙄

19 Jun 2023 at 14:02 | Open on mstdn.social
matt_panaro

@rysiek so, bit of a tangent, but: this reminds me of an exchange I had with somebody regarding whether reddit was done-for, or would retain a core user-base. The comparison was immediately made to twitter, which especially journalists have been reticent to depart. I countered that reddit had never been a hangout for journalists the way Twitter was, so it may indeed be Digg-ing itself. So, the point is, I find it interesting that, when you compared the press-coverage of the "Twitter Replacement" with that of the "Reddit Replacement", it turns out that of course the journalists had aneurysms over the former but not the latter.

@rysiek so, bit of a tangent, but: this reminds me of an exchange I had with somebody regarding whether reddit was done-for, or would retain a core user-base. The comparison was immediately made to twitter, which especially journalists have been reticent to depart. I countered that reddit had never been a hangout for journalists the way Twitter was, so it may indeed be Digg-ing itself. So, the point is, I find it interesting that, when you compared the press-coverage of the "Twitter Replacement"...

19 Jun 2023 at 14:02 | Open on octodon.social
Trolli Schmittlauch 🦥

@rysiek Without pseudo-exclusive scarce invites, there is no reason to feel smug and elitist about being there. Might have been an important driving factor.

19 Jun 2023 at 14:02 | Open on toot.matereal.eu
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

@schmittlauch yeah, I am pretty sure that's part of that.

Fedi instances renaming "registrations temporarily closed" to "join the queue for an invite" when? :blobcatcool:

19 Jun 2023 at 14:04 | Open on mstdn.social
Maxi 9x 💉

@rysiek @schmittlauch I do not believe in this theory. I assume it’s mostly out of tech journalist’s preferences. They aren’t on FB or that immersed in IG, they are on Twitter and read about Dorsey’s Bluesky.

BTW, haven’t found the Techdirt article, could you send a link?

19 Jun 2023 at 14:11 | Open on chaos.social
Maxi 9x 💉

@rysiek @schmittlauch Ah! Misunderstanding! I assumed #Threadiverse refers to the name of Meta’s P92 project (assumed "Thread"), but you mean the Reddit-alikes.

19 Jun 2023 at 14:15 | Open on chaos.social
PeoriaBummer

@rysiek They’re pulling the EXACT same “exclusive access” trick Zuckerberg pulled with Facebook in the early years.

19 Jun 2023 at 14:21 | Open on infosec.exchange
lunchy
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