• Thirdborne@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I don’t get why people still use that platform. It’s so hostile to the users. This is an election year and we’re just going to give him all this influence? Society is a big dumb animal.

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      10 months ago

      I have never seen the appeal to Twitter. It’s never seemed like a useful part on social media. I have never heard a change and go “well now I will check it out.”

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        10 months ago

        It was extremely useful in sports for quick in-game updates, especially from third-party groups (like the news beat reporters, versus getting info from the team).

        It’s really entrenched, though: Even with all of the chaos and controversy, it’s hard to find articles that reference something that happened in a game that don’t embed some tweets (or whatever they hell they’re called now) for the video. It’s extremely frustrating. I think, in part, that’s why the hockey community here on lemmy isn’t taking off - no one wants to link to Twitter, and there are basically no other sources.

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          10 months ago

          ESPN’s app seems to do my updates and I don’t have everyone’s opinion on it either. I mean I guess I can see the meme angle. But I think that would find it’s way anyways.

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            10 months ago

            ESPN’s app doesn’t note when a player is missing off the bench or something like that. The reporters at the game notice it and X it out.

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      10 months ago

      I think it’s mostly because everyone else is. Momentum is difficult and slow to change.

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      10 months ago

      It is the only platform where I can follow specific people without a algorithm getting in the way. They all need to choose a new one to move to.