Who needs microblogging?
I disagree with this.
Twitter or Bluesky? How about neither. – by Nate Silver:
The conventional wisdom is that if Twitter declines, some other “microblogging” platform will come along to gobble up its user base. But Twitter was never particularly successful as a business model.
I think there’s a very real need for a status / microblogging platform and have since the early wonderful days of twttr in 2006 (40404). Tumblr was also in play at the same time and served a very different function than something like a WordPress blog here.
Twitter started its decline in my mind back when it disabled Track and then in 2010 or so when it killed the API that made it so glorious. So whether it’s via federation or something else, there needs to be a “real time” status protocol (which I thought Twitter would become similar to IMAP).