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   Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 22:00:17 JST Polychrome :blabcat:

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   • Stephen Broughton
   @cody @miles @malevius remember Digg?
   
   Most people don't, and for a good reason.
   
   They used to be the big competition to Reddit. They thought the same about people being unwilling to switch and did a major change with no consideration to their userbase. Reddit ended up getting their entire userbase within a month.
   
   Looks like Reddit's management forgot critical moment because now they're expressing the same behavior.
   
   The key thing missing now is an alternate Reddit-like corporate silo they'll accept migrating users because I don't see them trying to understand this 'odd, nerdy distributed stuff' that we're using instead. At least, not until it is as slick and easy to use as the corporate silos.
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     Cody :collar: (cody@misskey.codingneko.com)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 22:00:19 JST Cody :collar:

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     • Stephen Broughton

     @malevius@mastodonapp.uk @miles@snug.moe That used to be true... I honestly don't see it now. People got too comfortable. It's going to take A LOT more than it took MySpace to die for Twitter or Reddit to die, and they know that and are using it.

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     Stephen Broughton (malevius@mastodonapp.uk)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 22:00:22 JST Stephen Broughton

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     @cody @miles I think we forget too easily that corporate social media come and go, too. Take MySpace, live.com, LiveJournal, MSN… If something else comes along that’s better, it gets replaced even if it never entirely goes away. There’s hope. But it does need societal awakening.

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     Cody :collar: (cody@misskey.codingneko.com)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 22:00:23 JST Cody :collar:

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     @miles@snug.moe you're right, we gotta keep pushing I guess, it's just... hard to watch how society runs towards the cliff, falls off it, gets all fucked up, and then proceeds to run torwards the next cliff and do the exact same shit over and over again...

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     Miles :verified: (miles@snug.moe)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 22:00:25 JST Miles :verified:

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     @cody@misskey.codingneko.com I mean, corporate social media are the norm and have been for a long time. If we had good alternatives before that happened, maybe we wouldn't be talking about this right now (or maybe not).
     But anyway, it's only normal that people aren't willing to switch if what they're currently using is "good enough".
     Still, I don't think you should focus on that, it's gonna get you nowhere. Instead I think we should focus on the progress that has already been made and on how we can improve what's already here further. I'm confident that Big Tech will keep making shitty decisions (I mean, we've seen that a lot during the years) and that, for one reason or another (be it wanting change or being tired at corporate bullshit), people will start switching more and more.

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     Cody :collar: (cody@misskey.codingneko.com)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 22:00:26 JST Cody :collar:

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     @miles@snug.moe I don't know, maybe you're right, but it's very discouraging seing none of the people I know are willing to put a second of effort into changing social media to something less predatory... Not just that, but they think you're a freak for not using corporate social media... I'm more disgusted with society every day tbh...

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     Miles :verified: (miles@snug.moe)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 22:00:28 JST Miles :verified:

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     @cody@misskey.codingneko.com Hey! Change takes time! The fact that a small portion of the userbase has switched is already something!

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     Cody :collar: (cody@misskey.codingneko.com)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 22:00:29 JST Cody :collar:

     Honestly the fact that #reddit (as many other companies) is effectively going to not really see much of a drop in revenue after screwing their entire userbase over makes me rather sad...