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Comment on Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media

dumpsterlid@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Fuck, just sign up with Mastodon and get it over with, you putzes. What is your issue with free software?

What you are partially seeing here is the fact that there is friction to the idea of Mastodon not being owned by a massive corporation. People have been so trained to expect their social media to be run by a massive corporation that even if an alternative social network like Mastodon does everything perfectly people are still going to get tripped up and feel confused about Mastodon simply because a bunch of rich people don’t own it.

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fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
People don’t care that it’s not owned by a millionaire. What they care about is it being simple and easy to understand. One choice is as simple as it gets.

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- dumpsterlid@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  People most definitely do care about that, and every single day more and more people are realizing how much it matters.
  
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  - fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yes people will not use a service because a billionaire owns it. But nobody is using a service simply because a billionaire owns it. People might choose bluesky over mastadon because the owner created twitter originally. But nobody is choosing it because Jack Dorsey has a fuck ton of money.
    
    Elon’s rabid fanbase not withstanding. That’s more the exception though, not the rule.
    
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    dumpsterlid@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    Yes people will not use a service because a billionaire owns it. But nobody is using a service simply because a billionaire owns it. People might choose bluesky over mastadon because the owner created twitter originally. But nobody is choosing it because Jack Dorsey has a fuck ton of money.
    
    I get what you are saying but my point is I actually think subconsciously (and sometimes even consciously) this is how people think. The collective organism of (at least US) society desperately wants a businessman (especially a techy one) to tell us what the future of social media is. People aren’t actually able to comprehend NOT needing a tech businessman to own their social media in a lot of ways. It is weird, but it is really just a natural consequence of how utterly obsessed US culture is with seeing all of society through capitalism and rugged individualism.
    
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