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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] 32 points 2 years ago (4 children)

COVID.

COVID changed everything. In an attempt to recover quickly, companies ramped up their abuses to new levels. While billionaires defending them all had their masks removed as the world collectively realized that it's impossible to make a billion without exploring others.

Toss in back to the office mandates and rising costs while those same companies post record profits...all while the population is Uber sensitive to that kind of thing, and we're in the middle of a not so quiet proletariat revolution.

Thanks to COVID a lot of people realized that despite the elites best efforts, the enemy isn't left or right, it's us versus the super rich. And it's having a trickle down effect.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The infinite growth ended. COVID moved everyone online that it could. There's no new people to move online, so there's no future growth to promise, and they have to make money off of their existing userbase.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Theres many different lines to be on though.

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