I bring you a good thread from @ted on the other app.
Tech may be the scaffolding of culture - we drive innovation, shape social interactions, though I'm not so sure we are super cultural.
We do have good content on X re: crypto and AI, but I'm here to tell you team Anthropic is almost exclusively on Threads. And even with AI, a lot of what you see on X (and sadly Threads) can be all that slop that tells you how to build a business with n8n templates.
I also think signull is a bit high on his own supply re: X being the most important platform, because you can barely find X people intersecting with Tiktok or instagram or heck, the blue app, facebook.
And i agree with ted, Substack itself is making inroads at probably *replacing* Twitter.
So, "it’s kinda interesting that nearly no one from meta leadership is actively part of the cultural or technical discourse on x. the most important platform for both." from signull is not signal, but noise - the Meta team is super active on Threads.
And I think signull caught signal from Nikita joining X:
"𝕏 is the most important social network in the world. It's where internet culture originates and where the world's most influential people convene.
Finding my community and building an audience on 𝕏 has impacted my life more than any single thing: it's unlocked friendships, professional opportunities and it's even where I met my girlfriend."
Overall, I think X is losing its cultural relevance. But we don't port people over to other networks. You create new experiences for them, and new networks form. This is why you don't find anyone full porting their audiences from Tumblr, or even YouTube. Even the Substack folk build (they may get an initial bootstrap from X, e.g. signull, but after that, are you engaging on their feed?).
https://x.com/tednotlasso/status/1939774107392123381
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