this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2023
500 points (97.3% liked)

Fediverse

17586 readers
296 users here now

A community dedicated to fediverse news and discussion.

Fediverse is a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe".

Getting started on Fediverse;

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml
wakest@lemmy.ml
500
New wave of Mastodon users thanks to Elon Musk floating around the idea of charging everyone for Twitter (media.tech.lgbt)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by FilmFanatic@lemmy.film to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
67 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The benefit is controlling the public narrative. Think about it, how many news media companies get business from Twitter? And now he has the power to suppress their reach or to even kick them off the platform altogether.

[โ€“] IzzyData@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I agree that is a really valuable position to be in, but you would still need to maintain your reputation or else they could all leave. The website itself is mostly insignificant and its popularity has everything to do with its reputation and userbase.