I’ve never been on twitter, but I’m not that surprised so many of us here were driving engagement.
People haven’t adjusted yet to the reality that online social ecosystems matter, they affect so much in the real world. Decimating multiple online spaces in such a short time has consequences and i hate that a handful of random guys with no stake in any of it except money get to make decisions like that.
Such is the fate of hypercentralized spaces. The fediverse fixes this.
Not really, profiles cannot easily migrate and they lose their connections in the process
The Great Shopping Mall of Alexandria
Surely this could be good, right?
If celebrities need to be accessible to their biggest fans, maybe it would induce them to leave the birdsite? And if this is as big a migration as the article suggests, it has the potential to snowball in network effects, giving other influential users one less reason to feel chained to a dumpster fire.
The suspension could have wide-reaching effects on pop culture globally.
Damn, real shame that.
Oh well.
Well, if they are smart they will just migrate to Bluesky.
I gave up on trying to get people to Mastodon.
What’s the problem? They’re just not sure which instance to go with?
“The internet is the blue ‘e’ swirl thing on my computer’s home screen.”
Okay, so I’m going to tell you where the new Twitter is in the blue swirly.
I know, I know, easier said than done to actually guide them through, but if they’re at that level it’s just a different setting on the magic box.
Honest quetion, what’s a stan account?
A stan is a highly devoted fan of a particular person, like a musician, actor, author or influencer. The term comes from a song by Eminem, and stans often interact on Twitter […]
From How To Geek.
Originally it was a portmanteau of “stalker-fan.” Think “super fan.”
Let’s take that etymology one step further: “fan” comes from “fanatic”, so a stan is a stalker fanatic. Which somehow has become a positive term in some circles.
It was actually a reference to Eminem’s song “Stan” about an insane fan who murders his family or something.
It has been suggested the name “Stan” is a portmanteau of the words “stalker” and “fan”, though it is unknown if the name was chosen with that intention. The term “stan” has since become an internet slang term for an extremely obsessed fan of something or someone and is derived from the song’s title.
