SouprMatt
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With Twitter crashing and burning, competition has actually opened up. Before Elon bought Xitter, Bluesky was a proof of concept, threads didn’t exist, and mastodon had users in the thousands, not the millions.Yes, it will happen again.
Which will give someone else another opportunity to make a platform, which when successful someone else will try to buy. It's the sad nature of our society, it's capitalism.
It also means making the most of something while we can, and not take it for granted. It's the acceptance some people are finally realizing with digital media of any kind. They are buying anything to own, they are paying to rent it until the big company decides otherwise. Which is the appeal of physical media, but if you notice, physical media itself is becoming harder & harder to get. Likewise if things become too decentralized, "oligarchs" will come for that since that control it. Whether it will use gov't, financial pressure, or whatever. It's the inevitable cycle / chase. Someone / something will make that decentralization harder to use over a more convenient platform.
Threads tried to capitalize on the X fail by automatically giving IG users an account… but most people don’t even know they have it, nor do they care. Bsky is something you need to sign up for, so people going there actually want to go there. And mastodon is just slowly chugging along, growing slowly, but maybe never big enough to be more than a niche player. But too big to disappear, so it will stick around.