• graphite@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Elon is fine in comparison; he’s far less of a problem than Meta is.

    The platform at this point may as well already be doomed because of people like you.

    Really - it’s like I’m reading the posts of Reddit manchildren who will forever retain their virginity because they’re incapable of understanding how things actually get done.

    I guess you can’t expect much these days.

    What’s going to happen next? Meta dominates the platform, you and the rest of your kind “protest”, then you fuck off somewhere else and pretend you “won”, while sucking each other off only for a repeat to happen sometime later?

    Are you going to wear your fedoras?

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      1 year ago

      True, but if we slowly move to foss alternatives like lemmy, peertube, mastodon and more(bonus points for self-hostability and federation across instances), it will be for the long term good, undoing the harm social media has done for decades. It will be like the forums and usenet era all over again

      I look at threads as a net positive right now but I don’t trust it. I see only upsides and no downsides. In a free as in free beer market, this is either a loss leader, scam, or a tactic to get normies hooked and then cut off ties with the ActivityPub.

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        1 year ago

        I look at threads as a net positive

        It isn’t positive at all.

        If you aren’t willing to understand why, I don’t know what else to say.

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          1 year ago

          I wonder why you have that stance. Can you please explain?

          It integrates with mastodon and other activitypub solutions(atleast as long as they’re not defederated en-masse like facebook is threatening) and caters to normies, essentially making activitypub mainstream. It might end up a “not like the other normies” hellhole like reddit, but the concept of federation makes me feel hopeful.

          Control goes from big tech to small instance owners…

          As for normies, control goes from big tech to big tech as a representative of celebrities on all instances

          Some might even switch.

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      1 year ago

      I really don’t get the recent Elon hate. He has always done some shitty things, like labour issues and I have always called that on.

      But free speech is a good ideal and it just screams of sjw controlling the narrative. That’s not a good thing, the hate is unjustified lately.