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Why you’ll leave X (as well as Instagram and all the other private platforms) (allr.cat)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It doesn’t really matter if you’re not willing to leave, because it would hurt too much to lose 50,000 followers, or 12,000 likes, or because FOMO has gotten the best of you. Those who have the least to lose will be the first to make the move. But this change will affect you too, slowly. This social mass will, little by little, become influential… and will end up dismembering these social markers that mean so much to you. Accounts with 150,000 followers will notice that part of their audience has left, and that the remaining numbers have become nothing more than indicators of a distant past.

Beautifully stated. Folks like us made the jump because our internet experience was never about "followers." For one, it always sounded like being fucking stalked, for two I actually like my privacy, and for three, I'm just some random fucking idiot anyway, folks really shouldn't be listening to every little thing I have to say. Don't follow me unless you want to be disappointed.