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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
Trump had 89 million followers and a massive cult of ideology. How did Truth Social go? Or Parler?
People follow hundreds of accounts, big and small. People aren't just going to abandon the collection of accounts they follow or the followers they have accumulated over time for one influencer. No individual node in those social networks is more valuable than the network. Even Bieber and Taylor Swift aren't making that happen, and their accounts are each smaller than Elon's anyways.
If Twitter does implement paywalls or something else that fundamentally worsens/breaks the creator/user experience, then there could be a mass exodus, but it's not happening otherwise. One or two big influencers does not make a global town square.
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I'm not sure how you can say that so confidently. The past shows this not to be true, with places like MySpace. A lot of people have moved to TikTok. "Influencers" don't care, they just add to to the list of "subscribe to my Youtube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Mastadon you know what to do!"
I think what will drive change is when other sites start adding Mastadon(or whatever turns out to be the favored replacement) embeds to things like news stories as they do with Twitter now.