Oddbean new post about login | logout Most users flock to and put up with a whole lotta shit on social media because their friends on on it. So I 100% do not agree with this. It's not some PR. It's been mentioned everywhere, and celebrities have said they areoving to it. Google trends for it is through the roof since the election.
But most of the articles are *about* how people are moving. You’re confusing cause and effect :)
Yes. An article says X is moving there. Say don lemon or whoever. 35k people see that, talk with some friends, now it's 50k people. 1k people go sign up and then post on x or IG or threads. An article about 1 person going there draws a thousand or more new signups. I've been in news media and marketing my whole career life. 25 years now I am not confusing anything.
Yea it perpetuates a movement, but articles talking about how there’s 1M users or whatever come after the 1M users….there was relatively little coverage between when they launched and a month or two ago, during which time they got 1M users. Blaming “the media” for losing users to competition is so lazy.
Most of the articles are about liberals leaving Twitter. Also, they are typical click bait pay per view stories on Forbes, fortune, BuzzFeed trash. But I'm not sure why anyone on NOSTR cares, personally. It isn't a competition, it is about more freedom, and the nostr protocol is the better choice at the moment.