Comment on Stephen King calls on Elon Musk to change 'X' back to Twitter
railsdev@programming.dev 10 months agoEveryone keeps complaining about how terrible twitter has become, but they keep fucking using it.
This is what gets to me too: I notice this pattern a lot with all kinds of products and services. I understand wanting a company to improve a product as a customer but when something gets to this point it’s time to hop off the train and go somewhere else.
It’s astounding to me that people expect the companies of everything they use to have an exact customized version just for them. It’s just never going to happen.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Cory Doctorow put it well, the social media companies make the switching cost high by holding their “friends”, connections and follows hostage to them. It’s difficult to convince any individual to jump to the lifeboat unless they know the others with them will.