Muddying the waters is the fact that the Fediblock Wall or Rainbow Curtain exists and that a certain segment of fediverse promoters advertise only servers that resemble ResetEra in rulesets. The end result? People join, get banned, go back to Twitter where as long as you're not Kevin MacDonald or posting edgy memes you can get by a lot easier even if only 4 people notice your posts screaming into the void.
But the thing is, Twitter has the pull it does because of the power of normies on the site. That power is fading now sure, I've literally heard Sirius XM DJs talk about I shit you not, getting e-mails with song requests now on his personal e-mail he linked to his website outside of SXM and at least one of them fucking put his email address in the station display instead of his Twitter after he deleted it. But most of them still use FB/Twitter solely. It says a lot they'd also rather use e-mail over the fedi.
The only thing that would actually kill the site IMO is if Twitter had it's own Tumblr moment, in which Twitter bans something so much of the site posts or uses that tons of big name users have to go because of the new rules. The result would be just like the porn ban on Tumblr, a cataclysm of the internet. Right now most websites are still reeling from the effects of that porn ban.
Elon Musk isn't even the same kind of fiasco that a porn ban would be, and even that wouldn't hurt Twitter as much as it did Tumblr because the normie who wants to keep up to date on filtered news or wants to look at shitcoin Twitter for how to get rich quick will still use it.
In fact, I'm thinking both posts I've read in this side of the web and lefty papers about their style of censorship; they will use social media to socially engineer people with bans. A lot of normies will fall in line to keep their social media accounts and Xbox Live accounts, the most they'll do is bitch about the propaganda in a game before going back to playing or saying "yeah this TV show was great except for the propaganda".
@PurpCat @Ash @RustyCrab
>It says a lot they'd also rather use e-mail over the fedi.
Honestly, that's good for them. Most people would probably benefit from a social media detox where they don't have a constant news feed shoved into their face 24/7. Just wait until they learn that it's possible to send an email to multiple recipients at once.
@RustyCrab @Ash @PurpCat At the very least it would kill the need for Facebook. My family used to send email post cards all the time before Facebook came into their lives.
Also, mailing lists seem to be more familiar to normies than RSS feeds, though most sites call them "newsletters" these days. There are mainly for the normies (mostly boomers) out there who out right refuse to use social media. I'd rather have businesses, celebrities, etc priorities those (along with blogs) over social media.
@xianc78 @RustyCrab @Ash @PurpCat Just insist that if people want to contact you online, they do so through email. They will generally come around.