I'm not sure it's all that different, just maybe you see more of it if you interact with JP twitter? Like artists use integrations to share their art on twitter and elsewhere, and lots of various services/games/survey-things prefer or require you to use twitter login instead of making you sign up with them directly and they use the API on their backend for various things. But that happens outside Japan too. I just wonder when and where they'll all go, and hope it's another global option instead of going back to a JP-only site... As a JP music fan it makes me happy that so many use youtube these days rather than niconico. (An idea Musk mentioned recently of promoting and auto-translating tweets from around the world is a nice one independent of everything else, my own twitter experience makes it feel much less like a hellsite just by virtue of following so many non-English speaking accounts that don't know or care about the latest dramas.)
> As a JP music fan it makes me happy that so many use youtube these days rather than niconico.
Exactly this, it would be a huge loss if those creators ran away to various obscure Japanese social sites. NicoNico's interface is simply inferior to YouTube's for consuming (they still gate now-ubiquitous UI niceties like thumbnail previews behind a monthly subscription) and it's a huge drag to have to use multiple sites to check everyone's feed for updates. And JP creators frequently have stipulations that their content can't be rehosted anywhere, so you have to fight the bad UX of those obscure sites just to find what you're looking for. It was a coincidental blessing that sites like YouTube Twitter that have (or used to have) a good API and discovery interface saw mass adoption by JP users.
(I know this sounds like an argument against decentralized social networking, because it is.)
Not to mention that JP Twitter really does feel like it has way less drama than the English-speaking side. For me it's just a constant feed of art updates and the occasional meme. Maybe it's because it's impossible for Anglosphere politics to catch on to the same degree over there. It would be a huge loss if a good portion of them moved away.
>lots of various services/games/survey-things prefer or require you to use twitter login instead of making you sign up with them directly and they use the API on their backend for various things.
That's all I mean. I don't use Twitter on ID on mobile apps and I don't think this is common at all in the US, but it's not uncommon for random gacha games to tie player ID by Twitter accounts in Japan. From what I can tell nobody is sure what the consequences of the change will be, like maybe auth only uses are fine. But since nobody knows, all the big games are playing it safe and telling everyone to move their player IDs away from Twitter.
The Twitter sign in stuff will be huge but most of JP Twitter that I'm on doesn't seem to care much. Music probably cares more, but I follow a lot of personalities, voice actors, and artists and they're not that concerned.
J Twitter is frantically telling all the people to use non Twitter accounts before they lose access.