Because there's still a strong football/soccer community there, along with Reddit
this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2024
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I don't know why you're getting downvoted, I agree with you (at least on the Reddit part) The soccer community exists on Lemmy, but it's just not even remotely close to Reddit's
Yeah. Even the largest leagues and teams are basically impossible to follow on anything but Reddit and Twitter. For smaller teams? Nothing else existsβ¦
Research. Many people I'm interested in still use Twitter. And I hate how Nitter instances globally have started to become rate limited or outright obliterated by Twitter API weirdness/
I guess it's because a lot of local news channels and personalities still use twitter.
A lot of youtubers and such only make announcements for content and streams via twitter, or their own services that kind of suck worse in terms of access. In order to stay on top of some limited access content, twitter is still "useful" in that regard.
Personally, I've never used it for that, I mostly ever checked twitter when a site I visit or game I play is down and they don't have a good way of conveying details otherwise. But I know of content creators that use it for that, so I'd understand people using it to stay abreast of content that way.
Your asking the wrong community. Go ask Reddit this question
I don't have an insta, so I'm not on threads. there's no scaled up site to even come close to challenging twitter.
I'm still there because there is pretty much nowhere else to go. once one of these places actually starts being as active and engaging as twitter I'm going there.
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My best guess: Ignorance is bliss.
(As for me I deleted my Twitter account that moment Elon bought the platform).
Knowing what I know, Iβm not. Mastodon is good, but not the same. There needs to be a publicly run version of Twitter, with same algorithms.
Sports. I can get a hundred tweets of highlights almost instantly on Twitter.
I never used it even before he bought it.
How is this response on topic?
I literally donβt give a single fuck what people are involved with producing the software I use
I have the distinction of having made my current presence on there a literal 24 hours before Musk announced he was going through with buying Twitter. By the time he was shown to be the kind of person he was, it had already become an inseparable piece of my mind and creations. If he bans me for speaking out against him, that will be a sign. Maybe this will be my speed bump.
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I left a long time ago already, nothing of value to be found there anymore.
Because too few people link Nitter therefore I need to find usernames to plug in by going to Twitter. Don't have an account and never will.