The advertisers, corporate shills, and bot providers are retooling to attack the fediverse.
It may feel like its 1999 again for a minute, but the $$ driven counter offensive will come.
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
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people won’t be addicted to it anymore
Wishful thinking. I'm wasting more time on Lemmy then I ever did on Reddit/Facebook/Twitter/...
However, the biggest advantage to me is that I can filter out what I don't want to see, not be forced to accept what is thrown at me or leav. (I did the latter on all) I now have the option to hide away from 'normals' again.
When you look at the world and see what is considered 'normal', who in their right mind would want to be like that?
The changes that people hate at Twitter/meta/reddit? Those are just evidence of malignancy in society. Not sure there's much to heal about the internet individually. It's more systemic. Anyways before I grow a thicker beard and start writing a manifesto or something, just go out there get as big as you can and eat the richest person you see. That's how you fix the problem.
What if they don't look tasty? Would you eat the Zuck?
A bit of bbq sauce can make anything taste good.
250 until an internal temp of 203, he looks like he's a pecan smoke but I've been thinking of trying mango
I'm addicted to it :)
I'm going through some personal stuff and reading Lemmy helps take my mind off it, and due to the smallish size and lack of ads and other bullcrap it doesn't repel me as easily as other similar sites... I'm even using an app, which I never did for Reddit.
I'd share your optimism if Zuck hadn't come out with Threads to the apparently very positive reception it's had. A lot of people who are on Twitter are also on Facebook/Instagram and the ease of extending those accounts to Threads means that most of them, when they get fed up with Musk, will just trade one giant social media corporation for another and nothing will change.
Well, something will change, which is that Meta will be strengthening their monopoly over most major social media sites
Meh. Does it really matter which psychopathic, emotionally stunted billionaire steals your personal data and controls your access to information? It's not like they won't sell it all to each other under the table for the right price anyway. What people have to do is get out from under the thumbs of anyone in Zuck or Musk's position.
Unlikely. Zuck can make another Facebook and millions will still flock to it thinking they've 'escaped' Facebook.
Spez can make a Reddit 'successor' and millions will still flock to it thinking they've 'escaped' Reddit.
The point is, we need to dethrone the root of the problem.