• @secret300@lemmy.sdf.org
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    447 months ago

    Why do people still use reddit? why do people still use twitter? why are people using bluesky thinking it’ll be different??

      • Blaze (he/him)
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        237 months ago

        I think it’s easy to underestimate how much censorship and enshittification people are willing to put up with. People will put up with a lot before they switch platforms.

        People use the Internet without an adblocker

        • Polymath
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          57 months ago

          Compare also: the people who bitch about McDonald’s, Walmart, Amazon, or similar, yet still spend money there. In many cases (not all), there’s an option to spend elsewhere, yet folks still vote with their wallet to pay into the system that f***s them.

          Capitalists don’t care about our gripes. The only language they know is profit and money

      • @localhost443@discuss.tchncs.de
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        147 months ago

        Coming to Lemmy means losing some of the really well supported niche communities from Reddit of old and that was the biggest hit of leaving, but the site being such cancer now I wonder how well they are doing anyway.

        Lemmy, once you’ve blocked 90% of the weird tankies, really does feel like Reddit from 10+ years ago in the comments. It’s just a shame due to its current small size how single minded the general feed often feels. Hopefully that improves

      • One issue with alternative smaller platforms can also be them becoming cesspools of users banned from the big platform. The first couple of Reddit alternatives quickly collected the racists and jailbait porn.

        A viable alternative platform needs more than extremist niches.

      • Dragon Rider (drag)
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        27 months ago

        A lot of these people will have never used an algorithm-less platform in their entire life.

        Drag can confirm, drag has never used a social media without algorithms. Unless talking through two cans and a string counts.