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Big surprise, Not. But this was all before the new discussions in the USA about censorship. On the other hand, most users are still using tweeter, so why should they leave now?

Any thoughts on this?

    • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      8 months ago

      My first thought was that you can’t lose something you never had, but the article doesn’t fit that idea. Apparently, some people once used it for tasks related to their profession. I guess that kind of use can give it a professional aura of sorts. Obviously, the rest of it is just one huge toxic dumpster fire, but some people are really trying to use it for something better.

      Professionals don’t really get to choose their platform. They just use whatever happens to be the one that gets the job done of reaching the right people. If xitter no longer fits the description, professionals switch to the next thing.

        • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          8 months ago

          I think the best thing about LI is the easy apply feature. It’s genuinely useful to standardize and streamline the application process. When every company has their own system, it adds such a threshold to applying that you don’t even want to go through all that trouble just to roll the dice and get rejected. It adds so much friction that it hurts both parties. Easy apply fixes that IMO.

          The rest isn’t that useful, and some of it we could do without. Like those lions and motivational aphorism posts that fall apart if you think about them more than 3 seconds.

            • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zipEnglish
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              8 months ago

              Oh, absolutely. The privacy aspect of this situation is just insane. Publishing your face and thoughts on Facebook was pretty messed up, and doing the same thing for career purposes isn’t any better.

              The only reason why I made a LI account was basically the same reason why companies started making websites in the late 90s. If you don’t have a website, your company doesn’t exist, and that’s just an unnecessary barrier to doing business. If you don’t have a LI profile, you don’t exist and that’s just an unnecessary barrier to getting employed. The unfortunate realities of our world today…

              And that’s not even the only disgustingly broken system we tolerate these days. Academic publishing, advertising, social media visibility, just to name a few. How did we end up with a mess like this.

                • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zipEnglish
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                  8 months ago

                  Well, the good thing about the current situation is diversity. Nowadays, we have lots of interesting alternatives for many essentials. Take the entire Fediverse for example. Also, the search monopoly is being challenged by alternatives, some of which are based on the distributed self-hosted instance approach we’ve seen with the Fediverse. Mainstream will always stay with the evil corporations, but at least everyone else can choose something better.

                  The biggest bottle neck I see with all of this is mobile operating systems. Technically, you can run something other than Android or iOS, but then you’re switching on hard mode in your life. With most other things though, the alternatives are surprisingly viable these days.

                  And speaking of using shitty software voluntarily. It sort of is, but not really. I’ve persistently avoided WhatsApp, but I keep bumping into that stupid spyware all the time. The pressure is growing every year as more and more people and even businesses become increasingly dependent on it. Fortunately though, people have moved on from Facebook, so I can continue to ignore that platform as I have done so far. I’m just hoping that WhatsApp crosses that threshold and people start switching to Signal.

    • Elfenbeil@feddit.orgOP
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      8 months ago

      Absolutly, bsky will beckmessert the new Twitter. With all the shit, but perhaps better covering the shut/censorship/bias pushing.

      It’s just the 458 wave of people leaving Twitter. And some naive part within myself hooded, it’s the final.