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Taylor Swift Fans Are Leaving X for Bluesky After Trump’s Election (www.wired.com)

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[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 55 points 5 days ago

I had setup a bluesky account back when they opened it up however long ago, didn’t touch it much, then just randomly decided to start using it a little bit before the election because Lemmy felt like it was running dry. It definitely seems to be popping now, though I don’t understand much why people waited so long to leave X. X seems like it’s been a shithole for awhile, did people not see the writing on the wall this whole time, or did the right-wing BS reach a critical mass after the election?

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 28 points 5 days ago

It saw some big growth after Brazil banned twitter and network effects make platform changes take longer

[-] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

I gave up on twitter when I couldn't stop being followed by no less than 3 thotbots a day.

[-] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 days ago

thotbot

lmao

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 23 points 5 days ago

Elon got what he wanted from Xhitter so I doubt he cares. But of course it's good to leave a toxic environment behind.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Because he's still a big manchild who needs to feel constantly loved.

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

you cant bully your way to love

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

All the promotion and sponsoring of Nazis and racism and pedophilia didn't already drive them off of there?

[-] pedroapero@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 days ago

Is she even on Bluesky?

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 6 points 5 days ago

Mastadon

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

they shoulda left before that

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best is now

[-] ekZepp@lemmy.world -2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Problem is... You still think that Musk and his "buddy" play by the rules. Ticktock will be sooner or later blocked because is a china "spyware", after that, who knows what kind of "terrorist movement" the government will find on Bluesky, or the Fediverse.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 21 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Sir, this is a post about a boycott. Also, tiktok is chinese spyware. All mainstream social media should be assumed to be spying on its users and doing dark pattern shit.

[-] ekZepp@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Sir dude, I'm here and I use bluesky and I love both of them, an that's exactly why i've posted my first comment. Considering the Epic ammount of bullshit i've seen piling up during the election is not really too much of a stretch thinking how Musk will use his "pal" to undermine other socials. For what is worth, i hope I'm wrong.

[+] WoahWoah@lemmy.world -23 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I really think it's kind of unimportant. Elon is the richest man in the world. There is quite literally no way for him to ever not be rich. He decided to target what turns out to be over half the country to use his social media platform, and it will now, even more than before, become a central communications tool for the hard right and incredibly politically important. That's valuable and, in this case, dangerous. You know how people use to talk about how important Twitter was for organizing and political dissent? The Arab Spring? Occupy? Well, it works both ways.

Swifties leaving X is the most unimportant thing I've read in a while, and I'm on Lemmy. SpaceX is still the most important space program in the world and NASA is now utterly reliant on them. Tesla, even after the mass exodus of liberal consumers, is still one of the top 5 auto companies in net profit. Elon is still the richest man on the planet and is about to get a high-powered position in the federal government.

But the swifties left, so. You know. Great.

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 27 points 5 days ago

Network effects matter a lot for social media. You need people on a platform for people to use it

Every erosion of a platform's users will matter. Platforms often die by a thoudand cuts. It doesn't have to be a single death blow

[-] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

And yet people want to stay on there to fight the good fight 🤦

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 19 points 5 days ago

Musk cares what people say and think about him. And he cares if you use his products.
So that's where you hit him.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world -2 points 5 days ago

No he doesn't. At least not the way you think he does. He gets enormous amounts of money from the government. Our tax dollars. He doesn't need you to buy his products or like him. Also, he could lose 99% of his money and still be a multi-billionaire. He'd still be one of the richest men in the world. OP is right, it's literally impossible for him to go broke.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago

Missing the point 101

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

Tesla, even after the mass exodus of liberal consumers

This is mostly just online bullshit. It's a fairy tale that people believe because they want to believe Musk can fail. Go drive around West Hollywood, which is one of the most liberal cities in the USA, and count the Cybertrucks. You wouldn't be able to count to 20 before you got 2 blocks if there was a mass boycott of Tesla by liberals.

[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Tesla sales dropped in the first two quarters of this year for the first time in the company's history, by ~10% and another 5% respectively. And this doesn't specifically breakout the new red-hat purchasers for whom Elon is the new god-king that replaced some of those liberal consumers.

Every cybertruck owner I've talked with and/or seen was clearly a Trumpet. Two of the ones I've seen even had Trump stickers and one had one of those American flags on a pole on it. Admittedly (and thankfully) I do not live in California. Nevertheless, the net effect of Elon's mask-removal has negatively affected sales, specifically because the almost exclusively liberal, college-educated, upper-middle-class purchaser that was the company's main consumer is declining.

Nevertheless, my point wasn't that it is somehow going to bankrupt Tesla. My point was the exact opposite: all this stupid shit -- "liberals are boycotting tesla!" "Swifties are boycotting X!" "Engineers are boycotting SpaceX!" -- does not actually affect anything enough to be worthy of celebration.

[-] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 days ago

There is quite literally no way for him to ever not be rich.

He could be dead.

[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 5 days ago

Hell, a decent chunk of people related to him would be ok with that outcome.

[-] b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

https://youtu.be/M8msrOt7-Ec?

Taylor Swift Mockingjay arc?

[-] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 4 points 5 days ago

Swifties leaving X is the most unimportant thing I've read in a while, and I'm on Lemmy.

You underestimate the amount of Swifties.
Here’s an indication: https://metro.co.uk/2024/06/06/many-fans-taylor-swift-20986907/

[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 days ago

Numbers from the article if you don't want to wade through everything:

105m monthly Spotify listeners
283m Instagram followers
32.8m TikTok followers
95.2m Xitter followers
58.2m adult (18+) swifties in the US
Napkin math estimate of a billion-ish worldwide fans

[-] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 2 points 5 days ago

Appreciated!

[-] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Swifties leaving X is the most unimportant thing I've read in a while, and I'm on Lemmy.

I like hats.

There's no way that's more important than anything else going on in the world today.

this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2024

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