Facebook has tried to compete with Twitter in numerous ways over the years, including copying signature Twitter features such as hashtags and trending topics. But now Facebook’s parent company is taking perhaps its biggest swipe at Twitter yet.

  • TwilightVulpine@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Just because of the sheer power of marketing, really. I dabbled with Mastodon, but it wasn’t any harder to use than Twitter. Maybe some people just disengage entirely when they hear about instances when in practice for a casual user it makes very little difference.

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      1 year ago

      Exactly, having explained mastadon to people they often don’t really understand or care about the actual concept, they just want to be where the content is.