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rglullis@communick.news 3 days agoThey prefer big tech, so let them use big tech.
It’s not about “preferring big tech”. It’s all the societal harm that big tech causes on everyone because their source of profit is not aligned with the interests of their direct customers.
I don’t care about “changing habits”. I just don’t want people that I care about being exploited and manipulated like that.
I will say something that I know will be grossly misunderstood, but I will try to make the case: I want to have influencers on the Fediverse, I want to see corporations setting up their instances and pushing their stupid corporate PR bullshit. I want to see phone companies selling data plans with ActivityPub accounts. I want to have the equivalent of LinkedIn lunatics, and personal coaches and all that crap that one can find on Instagram/TikTok/Facebook.
You know why? Because that would mean that the Fediverse is relevant. It would mean that we have enough people here that it can not be ignored anymore.
Snoopy@piefed.social 2 days ago
If ya want people to stop using big tech, you have to change their habits. You can’t change it, they have built their network, found old friends…maybe one day but most of them aren’t attracted by the fediverse.
How do you handle this part with the above one (exploited, manipulated) ? I don’t want them. I will leave or ask for defederation.
I enjoy this place as it is. It doesn’t need to be bigger. Once you remove it, i think plenty people will leave and create their own forum elsewhere as we did for Reddit.
rglullis@communick.news 2 days ago
It’s one thing to have systemic corruption and exploitation (what Big Tech does), it’s another to have endemic issues (bad actors, small-scale scammers, etc). The former can not be neutralized by individual/localized action, the latter can.