And I kinda expected people to move over after that. People were all making a big deal out of it, and there was a lot of interest in leaving the site after whatever questionable decision was made that week (Twitter Blue, the timeline kerfuffle, controversial accounts being unbanned, mentions of Mastodon and co being banned, etc).
Yet for whatever reason, no one seems to have stuck to that. Most of these places have communities, but the vast majority of people are either still on Twitter or keep posting there as their primary social media service.
So what will it take to actually replace it outright? To kill it in the same way Reddit killed Digg or Facebook killed Myspace?
> I kinda expected people to move
Why did you have this expectation? If you are big on Twitter why move and lose your audience? To "punish" Musk? That's absurd echo chamber, wishful thinking. If you are just a regular Twitter addict with no following why leave? To be alone and feel superior on weak clone?
There's nothing wrong with Twitter run by Musk. It's just as shitty as it always was. The UI was always shit, the 37/N threads were always full of trash and should probably just be a blog anyway. But people want the comment section dopamine rush of twitter.
Especially for the younger generations, they dont tend to stay and invest their time building profiles in just one or two social media, they use it all. There's no such dedicated efforts to "move." Only what is popular and trendy.
Nothing, is going to replace Twitter, Twitter is not doomed. Moving off of Twitter because you don't like the owner is fools errand. You are either looking for an echo chamber that is tightly censored like twitter used to be (congrats on keeping your ignorance and refusing to listen to the other side all while virtue signaling how open and tolerant you are, when really you are just blowing smoke up your own ass), or you are going to end up a platform that has hardly any censorship at all and allows all the shit you are so mad about that is now back on Twitter.
>To kill it in the same way Reddit killed Digg
Reddit didn't kill Digg, Digg shot themselves in the head.
I'm highly doubtful any Twitter-like platform could succeed in the next 5-10 years. You need entirely new experiences to attract people.
For messagebus style social media? TikTok.
All the ones I have seen are not even 1/10 of Twitter size so your potential reach is tiny.
Not to mention mastodon is too complicated to sign up for.
People won't ever "move over". You can either use the protocol you like with the people that interest you, or use the platform that people are on. I say this harshly because I like Mastodon and I'm tired of people assuming that things will ever 'go back to normal'. Your idea of 'normal' is giving one party universal power over everyone, and if we make that same mistake again then we deserve another Elon Musk situation.