The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is shutting down almost all of its official accounts on Twitter, citing “toxic interactions”, cost and better interaction with ABC content on other social media platforms.
They should start hosting their own server in the #Fediverse #ABC#Twitter#X#Australia#Broadcasting#SocialMedia
Now that both #Twitter and #Reddit have been short-sighted enough to burn through the goodwill of many users and communities, I wonder if it's time for distributions like @fedora and @centos - who were latecomers to the #Fediverse - to embrace #Lemmy ?
Let's see if I succeed in posting this to @linux as well - to see if Mastodon<->Lemmy interop works as well as it seems to do with another Lemmy community
I feel like the reason #Mastodon, and the #Fediverse at large, aren't taking off has to do with the fact that they're actually social networks. People don't seem to want a social network, they want content platforms. People aren't using #Twitter or #Threads or #TikTok to keep up with their friends these days, they're using these apps to entertain themselves. And since #Facebook and every other platform that used to be a social network began pivoting toward content promotion, I think society has forgotten what a social network is supposed to actually be anymore.
Starting August 7th, advertisers that haven’t reached certain spending thresholds will lose their official brand account verification. According to emails obtained by the WSJ, brands need to have spent at least $1,000 on ads within the prior 30 days or $6,000 in the previous 180 days to retain the gold checkmark identifying...
Certainly not a fan (more like lesser of evils) regarding Meta and Microsoft, but I would like them to take legal action against Musk's new X.
Since high school in the 1980s I have been fan of the Los Angeles based punk band "X" and it would be some kind of wonderful if they could find a way to sue Musk and X the corporation also ;-)
Seit ich im Herbst 2022 #Twitter verlassen und zu #Mastodon geflüchtet bin, habe ich einiges gelernt. Diese Erfahrungen möchte ich nun mit Euch teilen! #YouTube
I haven't been following it very closely but looks like Mastodon's monthly active user count climbed back up to 2.1M over the last couple of weeks. Not far off from our last peak!
Twitter commandeers @X username from man who had it since 2007 (arstechnica.com)
Twitter took Gene X Hwang's username and only offered him “some merch.”
Brands that don't buy enough Twitter ads will lose verification (www.theverge.com)
Starting August 7th, advertisers that haven’t reached certain spending thresholds will lose their official brand account verification. According to emails obtained by the WSJ, brands need to have spent at least $1,000 on ads within the prior 30 days or $6,000 in the previous 180 days to retain the gold checkmark identifying...
Elon May Have a Huge Issue Because Microsoft Owns the “X” Trademark (futurism.com)