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[–] [email protected] 101 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It’s kinda funny tbh. Seeing all those ppl complaining yet still staying there. Or better yet: “protesting” by putting content in which they complain, directly on those platforms. If Twitter does shit and u still use it, u show that the company that runs it can continue doin whatever it’s doin.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago (2 children)

“But what’s the alternative?!”

Blogs, actually updating your own damn websites, RSS/atom, mastodon, email.

Take a look at the Berkshire Hathaway website if you think your website needs to be fancy. They made $300B last year and still have a Geiko ad and haven’t updated the style since like 1997.

You can even run a website for free with GitHub pages. You can host a website from. Google cloud store bucket. Portugal The Man’s website is a Google Sheet.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

Just want to note that Berkshire Hathaway is a terrible example as they don't make their revenue off their site and have no need for it to be user friendly/inviting

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Then again, doing a complaining comment in Twitter so Twitter users can see it, and then going to another service provider while trying to lead users from Twitter to use that other app...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

ehhh, I don't see many folks typically caring about anyone's individual reasoning for complaining about or leaving $service.

maybe if it's part of a wave of reasoning like "leaving Twitter because of antisemitic content" or similar, it would have more reaching impact to the company.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Like years ago when youtube made a change that nobody liked and people posted Bob and the whole of Alice in Wonderland into the comment section of every Youtube video

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Shoutout to Canadian comedy gang LoadingReadyRun who did ditch Twitter and move completely to Mastodon. https://youtu.be/jh5buGkQVQI

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (4 children)

A creator I follow: "Twitter is becoming worse and worse by the day!"

Me: "Come to Mastodon!"

ACIF: "No, that is full of techbros, and which instance do I even choose?"

(At least it's not as bad as a former favorite VTuber, who after early criticisms of the Twitter takeover and Elon's personality, decided to "grow up" and like the "person who's saving the world" (Musk is now a climate change denialist, and I think he's just a deregulation promise away from announcing the petrol engine Teslas.))

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

which instance do I even choose

Literally any of them. That's the answer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity, which VTuber?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Cannot really tell you it since it was in private streams (especially not on a public forum), and she's pretty infamous for changing narrative around herself, then going full denial regarding the past. Some of which is granted since she did things in the past that are under NDA, others were just trying to please the bullies (which she got more thanks to relatively nonexistent moderation), at the cost of her own sanity.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I've never really followed the VTuber scene, didn't know they did private streams. I guess it's a subscriber thing or something?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

Parasociality has gone too far

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Yeah, pretty much.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What a consistent person. I bet they are very honest in their day to day life.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's a tricky multi-step process, ya know? The first step is to tell people where you're going. The second step is to leave. That's multiple steps!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Hold on that’s way too much to retain for anyone dependent on an influencer to make decisions, can you make this into a sound byte, because I’m getting Ted talk vibes from you.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Obviously you post your future tweets to the YouTube comment section.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Left reddit because of shit moderation and here I am getting the most mundane posts deleted by .world admins.

Will the circle

Be unbroken

By and by lord

By and by

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago

See the brilliant part about Lemmy, and the fediverse in general, is that you can create an account on a different instance to get away from bogus moderation and still have access to the federated content you saw before; in short, you can switch platforms without switching platforms. This was one of the things that attracted me to Lemmy in the first place -- it's not just another Reddit clone that will enshittify the same way Reddit did in a couple years once the people who moved to it get complacent. The cost of switching platforms here is effectively zero.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Shitty moderation is on every platform is specially up an coming like lemmy, if one should leave a platform is for the lack of moderation.

Moderation means people care, even though I am quite against it. I believe that a platform with no moderation would be illegal because pedos and other kinds of psycos exist, however other than that, everything in the legal realm or greyish ( piracy and stuff ) should roam free even if it's something perverse or completely stupid there is a downvote button for that, I don't remember the last time I used it.

Anyways for me the last straw was the api change that back stab on developers left me with a real sour taste in my mouth.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They'd rather sign up for Bluesky and give Jack Dorsey more money.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Yep. That's me.

I despise that bluesky is so much more engaging than mastodon.

And as soon as Al Yankovich, Ed Yong, Jeff Sharlet, MOMA, or any of my other favorite writers, journalists and entertainers get busy on Mastodon, I'll totally pass on bluesky... but in it's current state it is vastly more engaging than Mastodon.

Even Jake friggin' Tapper is occasionally (and not even awkwardly) hilarious on Bluesky!?? Weird but welcome vibe over there.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

BBC set up a mastadon why? Why not see how it works and they're probably gonna keep it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

YouTube sucks just as much as twitter.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yes but where else is a big audience and you can get paid without your fans directly paying you ?

YouTube has unsustainable model and that is working right now, they will need to turn a profit. Same for twitter.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Peertube too. I wish that more creators would crosspost

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Not sure which YouTuber you're referring to, but why not comment on it or at least call them out directly?

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