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[–] [email protected] 103 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Meanwhile, everyone will bitch about the absurdity of this and how shitty Musk and his followers are, then continue to use the platform daily as though it's an essential service. Anyone who hasn't jumped ship my now is either complacent or wholly supportive.

[–] BURN 21 points 8 months ago (2 children)

What’s the alternative for one-to-many communication? I don’t use the platform anymore, but I miss a massive amount of news related to most of my hobbies due to it, normally relying on Reddit users to repost them. It’s incredibly annoying to have to search through 10+ social media pages to check for updates about a race team during a race or an ongoing gaming event.

Mastodon doesn’t have anywhere near the adoption necessary, bluesky still hasn’t taken off.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's the rub, every social media service with any uptake is bad from a privacy perspective because the only real way to make them profitable is to sell ads.

So, what are you looking to get out of it? RSS is still a thing, services like lemmy are decent at aggregating links (post the content you want, and hopefully others will help), and bookmarks work well if you just need a dozen or so sites.

I honestly never use Twitter, Facebook, etc, and I feel like I'm about to keep tabs on things reasonably well.

[–] BURN 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I’m looking for live updates from race teams during endurance events, gaming news from specific creators, local traffic notifications and real time updates from sports teams leading up to games.

These things don’t typically have articles to link to, so aggregators don’t work well, and are often behind the curve. RSS has no adoption anymore and doesn’t quite work anyways.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

RSS has no adoption anymore

Not true. RSS feeds are the only thing I use these days and know quite a few others that do as well. Sure some sites may not have RSS feeds by default, but there are a ton of services that auto generate RSS feeds for you.

[–] BURN 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Again, these kinds of news pieces don’t have articles written because they’re real time updates.

On top of that I really have 0 interest in opening a ton of webpages to find simple info. RSS has never been a solution to what I want.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

So don't use RSS then? No one's trying to convince anyone to use RSS if they don't want to. I was just correcting the validity of the original statement.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

None of those are essential serveices. There is no alternative, those are just not essential things. In order to get those non essential things we will all stay signed into for the neo nazi revenue and messaging machine.

[–] BURN 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

So basically “don’t use it, we can’t offer a replacement, but since it’s not food or water you can go fuck yourself and not have it”

And people wonder why everyone doesn’t join open source projects.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Dude, I'm not your mom for you to complain to about the state of things. What I said is 100% true, and whinging won't make it less true. This is how these huge companies stay in control of our lives, and now this is how they are going to install fascism. Do with that info what you will.

[–] RaoulDook 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There's no need for an alternative. Twitter is simply not a necessity of any kind in reality.

But use whatever you want, freedom is yours to exercise as you see fit.

Personally I've never wanted to use Twitter, it just made me go "Yuck!" from day 1 of its existence.

[–] BURN 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There is absolutely a need for an alternative. Just because you don’t think something is important doesn’t mean that others don’t. People aren’t just going to give up features that they expect because “they’re not a necessity” - it doesn’t matter if it’s a necessity. It’s the reason people still use the platform, and until something replaces it people will continue to use it.

People hate FOSS because the people around it are fully ready to condemn you for using anything but, and when you ask for alternatives they tell you that you don’t need an alternative cause your use-case is “not a necessity”

[–] RaoulDook -1 points 8 months ago
[–] atrielienz 13 points 8 months ago

I don't see that. I see a lot of people who assume these two groups are the same people. But most of us don't use Twitter still. That's why their non-bot userbase is steadily declining. People are leaving. People are abandoning the platform.