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Facebook dies due to privacy concerns and misinformation. Twitter under threat because Elon. Imgur just deleted their NSFW content. Reddit with its API pricing. Twitch executives also getting greedy. Youtube has been going down for years.
It feels like we're seeing the natural life-cycle of social media companies in real time.
I don't think all that many redditors are moving to Lemmy. Judging by the stats on join-lemmy, there are only several thousand monthly Lemmy users, which is nothing compared to reddit which had tens of millions daily users
Counting methods are probably different, Lemmy stats only count users that posted at least once in the interval. I assume Reddit counts anyone who opens the site.
I'm out of the loop on Twitch. Not a big user of it, other than watching a friend occasionally. What's going on there?
Some advertising restrictions that would've been a nightmare for many streams that bake ads into their video, eg events like agdq as well, not just individuals.
But did twitch not back down, or have I been bamboozled by lip service again?
They walked it back yeah