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   FreedomPatriot (freepatriot@merovingian.club)'s status on Monday, 26-Jan-2026 17:48:57 JST FreedomPatriot

   The government insists that Meta has a monopoly. If anything, the social media market is fiercely competitive.

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     shortstories@merovingian.club's status on Monday, 26-Jan-2026 17:48:56 JST shortstories

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     Zuckerbdrg should be prosecuted for suppressing the free speech rights of United States citizens to appease European Standards with his tax haven corporation registered in Ireland while he lived in the United States

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     Zergling_man (zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith)'s status on Monday, 26-Jan-2026 17:48:56 JST Zergling_man

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     @shortstories @freepatriot If aNyThInG, tHe sOcIaL MeDiA MaRkEt iS FiErCeLy cOmPeTiTiVe.
     In a way, the bot's not wrong; I saw a post just recently saying something about "the one feature that people care about in an SNS is their friends using it", and it is correct. You can see that quite easily by just asking friends to join you on fedi, by trying to appeal on the technical merits of fedi; most people don't give a shit, they use Facebook because their friends are on it, not because they like it.
     So, once you hit a tipping point, doesn't matter what features or inherent value your thing has, it's basically fucked: People start leaving and they won't come back because there was no particular compelling reason for them to be there in the first place. But, by the same token, that tipping point is very hard to hit in the first place.
     
     Of course, I am now imagining someone who refuses to leave Facebook not because "it's what's familiar to me" but because they actually genuinely think it's a good SNS, better than twitter, fedi, whatever. I wonder if such a person exists. (Starting from the footnote that fedi didn't grow out of people who simply wanted to hang out with their friends, and indeed, still barely does; most fedi users are the aberrant who care about technical merits.)
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Monday, 26-Jan-2026 19:44:55 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • Dudebro
     Look... the reconquista took 700 years. I have time.
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Monday, 26-Jan-2026 19:44:56 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • shortstories
     What's the issue? 🤔
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     Dudebro (dudebro@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 26-Jan-2026 19:44:56 JST Dudebro

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     • shortstories
     Theres still Indians you lazy Spaniard elephant. Get off your siesta.
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Monday, 26-Jan-2026 19:44:57 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • shortstories
     People tend to do what they think everyone else is doing.
     
     When I was a kid my mom would often say "but what will people think?" I would always tell her... that's not the question. The question is "what do you think?"
     
     Of course, I'm on the fedi, so I'm probably built different.
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     SKiZM :confederate: (sk1zm@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 26-Jan-2026 19:44:57 JST SKiZM :confederate:

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     • shortstories
     You're literally an Indian stomping elephant 😒