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   Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 06:34:03 JST Steve Troughton-Smith

   Meta is very publicly doing what _every other company in the US_ is going to be doing in the near future. This is about as much of a heads-up big tech is going to give. You might want to save some of that anger to channel later, because an awful lot of vulnerable groups are going to be relying on your voice

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 06:34:39 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Kevin R Jones

     @stroughtonsmith @kevinrj
     “sustainable anger”

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     Paul Sutton (zleap@qoto.org)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 16:12:10 JST Paul Sutton

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     @stroughtonsmith

     The more this goes on and the more we see mis information and discriminatory behaviour spread on these platforms, fully condoned by the leadership, the less peoples excuses for staying on X, Meta etc hold weight.

     The two main reasons people stay on there are:

     Keep in touch with friends / family
     There are groups people follow
     There arae companies people follow

     The old reason would be 'no one uses fedi' this is not really that vaild.

     I was chatting to someone yesterday, I don't think they use facebook itself BUT they do use it to login to different websites, so that single sign on (SSO) feature is just another form of vendor lock in.

     I think Messenger is more popular, again owned by Meta / Facebook,

     So a reason for people to stay on could be the latter two there, being tied in to a single login and also messenge.

     So the barrier to leaving central social media is more how we consume news and information. I think a lot of people under 30 get their news via TikTok for example.