I don’t care about “changing habits”. I just don’t want people that I care about being exploited and manipulated like that

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.

I want to have the equivalent of LinkedIn lunatics, and personal coaches and all that crap that one can find on Instagram/TikTok/Facebook.

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.