Big surprise, Not. But this was all before the new discussions in the USA about censorship. On the other hand, most users are still using tweeter, so why should they leave now?
Any thoughts on this?
X never had a “professional edge.” It’s always been a low-effort plaform for triival increments of content.
lost its professional edge
It HAD a professional edge? Okay, good to know. Maybe that’s an american thing. And screw blowsky. It’s the same shit, just a different asshole. I wouldn’t trust this federation per se. They will manage to enshittify it sooner or later.
The study is tracking scientists leaving the platform.
There still are good news in this world 😊
My first thought was that you can’t lose something you never had, but the article doesn’t fit that idea. Apparently, some people once used it for tasks related to their profession. I guess that kind of use can give it a professional aura of sorts. Obviously, the rest of it is just one huge toxic dumpster fire, but some people are really trying to use it for something better.
Professionals don’t really get to choose their platform. They just use whatever happens to be the one that gets the job done of reaching the right people. If xitter no longer fits the description, professionals switch to the next thing.
Sure, there are circumstances that might totally force you onto those shitty platforms. But I would really hate it and try to prevent it as long as I could.
Guess when I would have to look for a job, I’d be screwed nowadays with LinkedIn. Which is even worse cancer…
I think the best thing about LI is the easy apply feature. It’s genuinely useful to standardize and streamline the application process. When every company has their own system, it adds such a threshold to applying that you don’t even want to go through all that trouble just to roll the dice and get rejected. It adds so much friction that it hurts both parties. Easy apply fixes that IMO.
The rest isn’t that useful, and some of it we could do without. Like those lions and motivational aphorism posts that fall apart if you think about them more than 3 seconds.
I’d be more concerned about the privacy. Applying to a company is one - possibly unavoidable - thing, but offering my vita, picture and all to a murican company on top? Nope. I’d rather create a tiktok-account tbh. Especially when I’m not murican myself, otherwise it Wouldn’t matter much anyway.
The easy application might sound tempting to ease an already horrible system. But “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” …and will loose both in the end.
Considering how I always put up jobs and my decision-process to choose the people (screw CVs and pictures), I feel very anachronistic now.
Oh, absolutely. The privacy aspect of this situation is just insane. Publishing your face and thoughts on Facebook was pretty messed up, and doing the same thing for career purposes isn’t any better.
The only reason why I made a LI account was basically the same reason why companies started making websites in the late 90s. If you don’t have a website, your company doesn’t exist, and that’s just an unnecessary barrier to doing business. If you don’t have a LI profile, you don’t exist and that’s just an unnecessary barrier to getting employed. The unfortunate realities of our world today…
And that’s not even the only disgustingly broken system we tolerate these days. Academic publishing, advertising, social media visibility, just to name a few. How did we end up with a mess like this.
At least on Fuckbook you kinda do it voluntarily. Noone forces you. But as far as I can oversee the job-world it’s kinda a necessity nowadays (LI). I guess I would really really really be screwed should I look for a job today. Can’t create an anonymous profile, would not gift my valuable personal info to - especially - a murican company. That would probably kill my chances pretty well. Especially in the IT. Ugh.
And yes, you’re right. Academics isn’t much better. And let me not start about ads or social cancer, err media.
How we got here? From an old far who was there day #1 (when i had to move to another city to personally sign a contract to have internet-access, lol): The more non-geeks explored the web, the more dumbed down (not meant demeaning) it had to become. And the lower the lowest common denominator became, the more everything had to adapt. Then google switched from “don’t be evil!” to being the most evil motherfucker of them all and it all went downhill. Now, after witnessing the rise of search-engines I’m right in the endtimes of their decay. Search SUCKS ASS. AI sucks a lil less ass, but more blows the front. It’s also shit, but faster! And 10yrs from now when 99% of the net is circlejerked AI-junk fed to other AIs that feed other AIs… I could go on for hours but…
At least, we have a buy-european-movement that slowly gains traction. That’s something, right? RIGHT?
Well, the good thing about the current situation is diversity. Nowadays, we have lots of interesting alternatives for many essentials. Take the entire Fediverse for example. Also, the search monopoly is being challenged by alternatives, some of which are based on the distributed self-hosted instance approach we’ve seen with the Fediverse. Mainstream will always stay with the evil corporations, but at least everyone else can choose something better.
The biggest bottle neck I see with all of this is mobile operating systems. Technically, you can run something other than Android or iOS, but then you’re switching on hard mode in your life. With most other things though, the alternatives are surprisingly viable these days.
And speaking of using shitty software voluntarily. It sort of is, but not really. I’ve persistently avoided WhatsApp, but I keep bumping into that stupid spyware all the time. The pressure is growing every year as more and more people and even businesses become increasingly dependent on it. Fortunately though, people have moved on from Facebook, so I can continue to ignore that platform as I have done so far. I’m just hoping that WhatsApp crosses that threshold and people start switching to Signal.
Absolutly, bsky will beckmessert the new Twitter. With all the shit, but perhaps better covering the shut/censorship/bias pushing.
It’s just the 458 wave of people leaving Twitter. And some naive part within myself hooded, it’s the final.
And then there’s me who never ever had an account there and surely will not at blowsky :-)
I only got an account because Friendica can connect to it this way. Otherwise, no need for another corporate silo, but with federation as a buzzword slapped to it.
Yup. And I’m kinda curious how they’ll manage to put a bad label on “federation” in the end. How exactly they’ll fuck shit up. For users, not them of course.
