• aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Now we’re doing headlines like this with tech companies in addition to politicians? These fuckers act with impunity because they can.

    For some reason, it appears the unbreakable barrier for humanity is switching the fucking social media site you go to.

    What would it take for people to consider not looking at Instagram and Facebook? A feed full of snuff videos?

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      10 minutes ago

      the unbreakable barrier for humanity is switching the fucking social media site you go to.

      Facebook is quickly becoming a retirement community, exclusively for me-maws and pepes. It hasn’t been the tool for college kids to organize keggers in nearly a decade.

      But when alternatives to Facebook crop up - your Instagrams and TikToks and Discords and WhatsApps and Grindrs - they don’t last long before being gobbled up by the bigger social media giants or shut down by hostile state regulators.

      In the end, everything returns to Facebook, because the big companies can borrow money for free and staple on whatever small firm is seeing a lot of early growth. I give BlueSky another three years, tops, before one of the big social media giants acquires it.