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    23 days ago

    “Well, one lesson I’ve learned is that just because I say something to a group and they laugh doesn’t mean it’s going to be all that hilarious as a post on X,” he wrote Monday, adding later, “Turns out that jokes are WAY less funny if people don’t know the context and the delivery is plain text.”

    The owner of Twitter is learning how text-based communication works in realtime before our eyes.

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    23 days ago

    WHY THE FUCK HAS EVERYONE NOT DELETED TWITTER

    there is literally no correct answer

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      22 days ago

      I just said goodbye to it today. I realised there’s a bigger, unselfish choice to be made in the scheme of it all

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      22 days ago

      I was only ever there to follow a wide variety of parody star trek accounts which were hilarious and thought provoking.

      They’re all gone, now that musk is doing his thing. Twitter was cancer, now it’s terminal bullshit and I’ve deleted it long ago

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      22 days ago

      there is literally no correct answer

      I deleted mine years ago but, in Japan, it’s still one of the main ways small shops communicate with their customers. Some use FB or insta instead. They don’t have the knowledge, money, or desire to create a whole website that is far more difficult to interact with and update than the platforms that are free, people use, and are easy to update.

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          I don’t disagree, but the majority of Japanese are just using whichever device is in their pocket (largely iPhones or Android, some feature phones, the occasional tablet, and much more rarely (outside of official business work), an actual full-sized computer).

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            22 days ago

            I think they’re suggesting that business owners create Lemmy communities with their phones, hosted on library servers.

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              Ah. That’d be a nightmare here, probably. Japan is pretty notorious for low tech literacy outside of a few narrow areas. I also think that this might have reliability impacts that just drive people away. Finally, no average japanese person has any idea what the fediverse is, so that’s another hurdle to jump.

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      22 days ago

      There is no one true replacement for the utility that it provides. Not with sufficient penetration of network effect, anyway.

      Same reason most people don’t delete Facebook (edit: or Reddit).

      You may not personally find utility in either of them. But just like boner pill spam, clearly someone does, or they would just go away.