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

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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] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

they are realizing that if they want to maximize profits they don't actually need to maximize users.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And that people are generally pretty stubborn about their social media these days. While the migration to Lemmy has been significant, it's still a tiny proportion of reddit's total users. Most people just want to see their feed and don't care overly much about the specifics of how it's run (even if they should) - and even those who do will often put up with a lot of BS to stay in their comfort zone.

Look at Twitter - you've still got tons of people who despise Elon and his changes to Twitter who are using the platform every day. It's been half a year now with things only getting worse and these people are still clinging to the platform because it's where they're comfortable. If anything, Elon showed that you can give your community some serious abuse while still maintaining high user counts

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yup.

iPhones and centralized, corporate social media are just what the internet is to a lot of people. People who were either too young to have used the pre-2008 Internet, or people who saw computers and the Internet as "too nerdy" or "too complicated" all ended up on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Those who didn't think juggling multiple groups was too hard also maybe ended up on Reddit. Once Reddit had an official, first party app, at least.

These people make up the bulk of social media users, and these people likely won't be leaving those spaces.

It's all they've ever really known of the Internet. And it's all they've ever wanted from it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

To be honest, it’s not like most of those people aren’t just lurkers anyway that don’t contribute to their communities. An open Internet can thrive without the majority of Reddit Facebook and Twitters users