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[–] [email protected] 128 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Companies are in the fuck-around phase, and we'll all have to live in the find-out era.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Meanwhile, the masses are still using all the 'services' because they all have momentum. I'm not confident any of them can do anything bad enough to chase off their users.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I thought Facebook would die with all the scandals, I'm the only person in my life who cared. I deleted Twitter before it became X, I'm the only one I know who did that.

I don't think anyone gives a shit and it's made me hate people a lot more than I used to.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Most people I know left Facebook and Twitter years ago. Maybe it’s just a difference in people we associate with? 

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I already left reddit because they did bad things. Assume you mean chase off a critical mass though? The fact that "X" is still a thing may prove you correct.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Huge amounts of people have already left X. Those that remain are mostly bots and neo Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How ever much we want that to be true, it's simply not. Sadly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

there's a pretty good breakdown here about how it actually is, but, obviously, X is goosing the numbers to make the loss look not-so-bad.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Yeah, they’re not leaving. The only way they would leave is if the service were to be physically shut down. Pretty sure you could make everyone watch 1 minute long ads on app open and they would still stay.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

100%. In a writing sub I threw out. "I wish they'd just charge us, users a fee."

I got "Pay for this?!"

Folks live and die on Reddit but the idea of paying is... gross. Yet they scream about moves like this.

People, man.... I dunno.