Stuart Longland wrote:
It's also dead because how how things are being run there. It's a site for misinformation. "OpenBSD 7.5 is released" isn't misinformation, it's fact, so has no place on twitter.com or x.com. It's also news about an open-source free-software project, something that also is off-topic for twitter.com and x.com.
Traditional social media has been on the decline since 2015, and it has nothing to do with the reliability of the content it hosts. I would argue TV stations and newspapers generate a comparable amount of garbage and nobody complains.
The main issue is that it is getting harder to reach people from social media, which is the main goal of corporate and commercial users of social media. So called "organic growth" (ie. passively building an audience just because they find you on social media) has been descending since 2015. The main issue seems to be that mainstream social media generates so much stuff for people to read that the probability of people finding you instead of finding yet another silly video has decreased significantly.
I think it is worth mentioning I know of a number of small operations that have announced their complete withdrawal from social media - Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, the Fediverse - because the benefit they get from social media presence is not worth the labor time required to sustain social media presence.
That said, when those operations ceased social media activity, they took care of making it widely known among their audience rather than just let their social media accounts rot...
