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   timberwraith (timberwraith@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 01:35:48 JST timberwraith

   I think that a fair part of the public has been conditioned to see large scale corporate social media services as more legitimate and more useful than their smaller scale analogs.

   More generally, a fair portion of the public is simply conditioned by ever present marketing and advertising into seeing "Big Corporation" as having more legitimacy than other options in so many things.

   Consequently, I often find that "the public," as it were, has shit tastes in what it considers to be "quality."

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     timberwraith (timberwraith@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 01:35:47 JST timberwraith

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     And that conditioning starts early in life. Big Corporation is there from your childhood onward, telling you what the good things in life supposedly are.

     So, much of the public is going to stick with Big Corporation Social Media Outlet because that's what they've been conditioned to see as a legitimate "higher quality" space in which to gather.

     It's what they're used to and comfortable with.

     And they have shit tastes but those are their tastes at this point.

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     timberwraith (timberwraith@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 01:35:47 JST timberwraith

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     Now, I know people are going to say that I have an elitist take on the matter.

     LOL, I don't care.

     AnthonyJK-Admin repeated this.
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     timberwraith (timberwraith@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 01:35:47 JST timberwraith

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     If something is shit, I'm going to observe that it's shit, even if Jane and Joe Average think it's ambrosia.