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This is just the cost of doing business as a social media company now. Either you bow to the whims of local government or you get replaced by someone who does.
by inverted_flag 1y ago
This is just the cost of doing business as a social media company now. Either you bow to the whims of local government or you get replaced by someone who does. Pick your battles wisely.
- doener 1y agoAnd that‘s why I don’t understand that people switch from the one centralized company owned by a billionaire they don’t like to another company owned by a multimillionaire they dislike not yet instead to decentralized Mastodon.
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- EA-3167 1y agoI don't understand why people haven't figured out that algorithmic social media is a terrible thing by design, and that it should be avoided. Twitter, IG, FB, all of it is pure poison and the underlying problem isn't who owns it. It doesn't need to be part of our lives, and in fact we'd be better off without it. Opt out.
- bigyabai 1y agoPresumably because they see these same critics use platforms like Hacker News and Reddit while denigrating "the algorithm" and assume nobody is all that serious about quitting social media.
- EA-3167 1y agoReddit is pure poison, Hacker News is pretty much the furthest thing from addictive, flashy, "engagement at all costs" as you can get. Besides... https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/259/257/342.png https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/259/257/342... If that's really all you're saying then I'd encourage you to dig a bit deeper for something worth saying.
- r721 1y ago>instead to decentralized Mastodon Why do you think Mastodon is immune to this? Turkey can just as easily block 1000 domains, there is no much difference to blocking one.