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  • Not really, no. I said I informed myself about alternatives to Reddit (as an example) and then dropped it and moved to Lemmy.

    I said jumping ship for King may be hard for various possible reasons which I was trying to guess (and don’t pretend to know).

    Mastodon is further along than Lemmy is, so I hope Stephen King can move there soon, but it might still take time.

    If you have an X account (I never used Twitter/X), you can write King to let him know about Mastodon


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    It’s not easy to jump ship (because of the network effect) and possibly not being tech savvy enough to know where to land.

    I jumped ship from Reddit this year after reading some posts about alternatives. I tried Tildes too, which I found interesting, but more of an experiment, than a substitute.

    King (and others like him) may not know alternatives exist and can work just as easily.

    Also, even if King knew of Mastodon, maybe his fans wouldn’t jump ship too even if he had said he’s moving there

    It’s complicated



  • When someone says this, it’s a recurring joke, but when I’ve read your comment, it’s the first time I actually think it may happen.

    Well, I don’t expect a takeover at all, but perhaps I envision something like this year’s Reddit migration: I imagine some individuals or companies won’t stand for it and switch to Linux.

    So maybe in one year Linux on desktop will go from 2% global installations, to 3% or 4% which would be a colossal uptake!

    (I admit I’ve not checked the current percentage of Linux installations, it was 2% years ago, but maybe it’s already higher)