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Seriously, what's up with big sites literally dying as we speak? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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First all the bs with Twitter and Elon, then Reddit having an exodus to Lemmy (not complaining lol), then Twitch. Are we like, in an alternate self healing dimension or something?

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

An aunt asked me if she should delete her WhatsApp. I told her no. I knew most of the family would stay on WhatsApp even if they were virtue signaling now. Nowadays the WA group still has 40ish people and the telegram stayed at 20ish and my aunt is on both. I think that's what most people do. They look around, stand up, breathe heavily, their heart rate goes up by 1.5% and they sit back down.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great analogy yeah. I relate to the WA/TG thing. I was a relatively early adopter of Telegram and have seen multiple waves of people saying "fuck WA this was the final straw!!" with whatever mildly annoying update dropped. Then after about 2 weeks barely anything changed because, let's be honest, most people don't want to move to another messaging platform (it only works if everyone does it).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

There's a positive side to this phenomenon. For people like me that don't like trends or people that engage in trends, having a trendy app helps filter those people out. I don't have WhatsApp because of some philosophical value regarding the company. I don't have it because I don't want to interact with the people that use it. It's great! The moment someone asks me for my WA, I say I don't have one and note that I probably won't be friends with that person. I also don't want to be on long running 40+ members chat groups. That's way too much meaningless information for me to process.