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"They need us. We don't need them:" The fall of Twitter is making the trolls and grifters desperate (www.salon.com)

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[–] PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 96 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (45 children)

Does anyone know where the normal people are going though? I suspect Mastodon and tiktok? At least the young ones.

All this, Ryan said, explains why the trolls "are getting more extreme and desperate." The pool of people available to get attention from is shrinking, so the only way to keep the engagement rates as high is to say wilder and nastier things. But eventually, there will be so few people on Twitter left to aggravate that even white nationalist dogwhistling and Holocaust denialism won't work.

[–] emptyother@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have come over a few Reddit communities who moved to Discord of all things. I don't get why. That isn't even remotely the same type of discussion platform.

[–] n00dl3@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm really not a fan of Discord. Why would anyone use a platform that's not accessible without making an account and requires an invite to each group? If it wasn't branded towards gamers I don't think it would have much appeal.

[–] normalmighty@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Imo it's because sites like reddit make communities too open. It's common knowledge that once a sub regularly makes it to r/all, it loses all identity and joins the vague soup of r/all content which everyone upvotes with no regard for the source.

A lot of people don't want one big page with all the biggest communities thrown together. They just want to follow what they like and nothing else.

That said, the chat room format of discord is a pretty awkward stand-in for a forum type of community.

[–] Stormlight@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Discord has its uses but it's very much not the same. I often can't even find my question I asked an hour later.

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