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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)

submitted 11 months ago by psychothumbs@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 83 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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.

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (14 children)

Don’t forget Threads.

[–] PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (13 children)

People stayed there?

[–] ultimate_question@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How many people do you think are on lemmy compared to threads lol

[–] PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Idk, do you have a source outside of meta or lemmy that can accurately tell us?

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