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Well, I'm still waiting for Twitter to "need a replacement". It seems to be doing just about fine on its new normal. Ditto for any of the other Meta places, which have only consistently grown over time. Yes, Facebook, too.
To be clear, I don't particularly mean too little, too late for me. I'm not on Twitter or Facebook or any of those platforms, Bluesky and Fedi aside. And again, I was not on board with the Masto quote tweet thing. I did stop using it frequently, but not for that reason.
I mean too little, too late to make an impact of any kind. Masto has been stuck where it is for a while, and so has Bluesky. I don't think either are going back to growing anytime soon, but if either does it probably won't be because Masto added quotes. I'm fairly comfy talking to the same dozen people out here like I'm in a 90s IRC channel, but ultimately it'd be nice if the gross places didn't keep driving the global conversation forever. And on that front... yeah, too little, too late.
Yeah, neither have killed Twitter or displaced it enough to affect real change, but they are nice despite — or perhaps because of — being smaller. Like Lemmy, in fact. I don't know if being here hurts Reddit. I hope so. But more importantly I like it better in these places even if it fails to disrupt the fortunes of greedy assholes.
But the next time something happens to disrupt Twitter or Reddit, alternatives are available and will attracts few more people away. Over time... who knows. Maybe some real change will happen by accident.
They are credible threats now. I think Bluesky is a bigger threat to Twitter. Some posters said when they posted about Russia's war they got better interactions on Bluesky because X downranks the topic