Twitter essentially broke itself as a useful tool for me having used it primarily through Tweetbot for years.<p>Previously if I was having some issue, I could search for the @username of a company or service and find users sending messages that username from Tweetbot. Now if I search that on their web or X app I can't find any way to show what people are saying "to" that username. Instead I get that username's content or perhaps a reply from them to someone that seems to be stale.<p>So I spend almost no time there anymore, and as-such, no links from there are surfaced to other platforms.
To echo a comment on the post, the numbers on this would be really interesting to see. The comments are all on bigquery if anyone wants to write a blog post to confirm the trend.<p><a href="https://hoffa.medium.com/hacker-news-on-bigquery-now-with-daily-updates-so-what-are-the-top-domains-963d3c68b2e2" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://hoffa.medium.com/hacker-news-on-bigquery-now-with-da...</a>
Twitter doesn't have a ton of people pimping twitter out to anyone who will listen. Those links tend to occur because people actually use twitter.
Doesn't really pass the smell test. I checked on hckrnews.com/, scroll to load posts that reached the front page from now to August 1, ctrl+f "twitter", ctrl+f "mastodon", 14 vs 2 matches.<p>I don't know if there's other domains besides mastodon that I may have missed in this quick test.
not everyone wants mastodon, so alternative links would be good.
forking HN activity over to another board is unseemly, but if its really low quality non informative stuff thats fine.