The fact that 76% of developers responding to the GDC survey still use twitter in the face of clear evidence that the site is crumbling to pieces and may go bankrupt at any moment is a real moment to me of like... man, inertia is a powerful thing
a mere 10% of respondents having tried any of the new alternatives is esp fascinating to me - I feel like there's a popular perception that bluesky is "the new twitter" among its users but clearly brands and marketers don't feel the same way
I can't help but wonder if, when twitter eventually fully collapses, we're going to see a moment where a huge number of devs are just... caught out and have to rebuild from scratch. Like if you were going to get out, the time to start getting out is "as soon as humanly possible". It feels actively dangerous to me to not be at least trying to build up elsewhere as a hedge.
I guess we'll see.
my one contribution to this ongoing and increasingly tedious discourse is that it was, is, and remains very funny to watch the developer of a certain very popular and influential retro-style fps dramatically announce he was quitting twitter for a litany of reasons, then tweet even more than before
multiple times
i think he's on his third goodbye-forever by this point
last i checked he was unironically filming video responses to twitter gamedev discourse from the driver's seat of his car
