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What made everyone move to Bluesky or Threads instead of Mastodon? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/fediverse

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What made everybody move from a corporate social media platform to another corporate social media platform instead of the fediverse?

After all, the Fediverse and Activitypub is much more mature than Bluesky and the copycat AT protocol or Threads and ... whatever they use.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I needed to scroll way too much to see people mention marketing and advertising. It's a huge deal.

The power of good advertising is not to be underestimated. There is a good statistically proven reason why so much money flows into it. And it's not only traditional advertising but viral and "astroturfed" advertising.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

There is a good statistically proven reason why so much money flows into it.

Too many smug people think, "advertising doesnt work on me! Hah! Only weak minded normies fall for it..."

Wrong.... Advertising works. And that's the reason a shit ton of money that goes into it.

You want to know the reason why i run adblockers in my browser AND DNS levels? Because i KNOW advertising works on me.... i KNOW i'm not smart enough to outsmart the army of engineers, and copywriters generating this stuff.

Source: i work in advertising lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

The "this would never happen to me" mindset really is cancer to logical thought and reasoning.

I somewhere read (maybe it was thinking fast and slow by Kahneman?) that even psychology students learning about certain behaviors would later anonymously claim they would never fall into these patterns. But plot twist: they are also only human, so of course they also could fall into these patterns.

Another example: People that think they would never fall for a scam. If it is the right scam they will fall even more easily for it than people that know that it could happen.

"Of course it can't be a scam. Scams are obvious and only idiots fall for them."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

“Advertising doesn’t work on me!” I mutter smugly, before loading up the Apple keynote to see what my next phone will do.