Thought experiment. 

Seems like dissatisfaction with X is increasing again. (Not surprisingly as we are in an election cycle)

But let’s pretend X was built on top of Farcaster. People unhappy could leave and use a different client, without losing their followers or their content. 

What would that look like? What would actually happen?

Would there be alt clients that people would actually migrate to?

Would X be worried about losing market share and work to keep people around?

Or would people just stay on X and complain?

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Outside of the crypto twitter crowd etc, there seemed to be a significant exodus to threads...when it first launched it seemed to be a place to hate on elon and his views etc etc.

have seen a few of the well known liberal journalists come back to X, yet there is still a rather fanatical group of lefty folks on threads.

its a "silo" effect of social media - imagine truth social, bluesky etc help further separate the conversations.

I like the opportunity to hear from and consider other's viewpoints, but for folks with large followings the trolling etc can be overwhelming I reckon.

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Re: siloed effect
Full agree; people just flock to the echo chamber that fits them