For people worried about their following on X / Twitter, it's really truly not worth it.
I've left behind 74K followers. I don't miss having my content on there at all, and it has clearly *not* affected traffic even in the slightest bit.
It's been a week since my last content posted from the website to X, so I have a pretty good look at traffic now, there was literally *no* drop-off, and the first few days after leaving X traffic went up
@gamingonlinux If you are primarily YouTube based then this would not affect you.
But many people derive huge amounts of traffic from Twitter.
I think it's an oversimplification to assert that your use case applies to everyone else.
Unfortunately, a lot of people are going to remain on Twitter. What we need is crossposting first, especially from governments.
@mattsheffield i’m not YouTube based, and Twitter has *never* been a good source of traffic, this has been repeated by many many people and groups
@gamingonlinux Maybe you are not Twitter based, but for me, Twitter has always been a fantastic source of traffic.
I wish I could replace it but unfortunately, the fediverse and Bluesky are not anywhere close.
@mattsheffield You don't even have 4K followers on Twitter, so that's both surprising and not so, your reach in general is just...small
@gamingonlinux Seems like you should look closer there.
You should stop projecting your traffic experience onto others.
@mattsheffield I was going by Discover Flux, which I assumed you were on about for your work stuff which is why you wanted the reach.
I'm not projecting anything, and this attitude you seem to be giving me is now annoying. I was giving my own experience.
@mattsheffield Anyway, muting now, I don't see sense on talking over this further, it's working out well for me and X is a far-right shithole platform now, cya :)