You wanna know why they’re there? Because you’re there. The ol’ catch-22 of social media walled gardens. Inconvenient for literally everyone except the guys running them.
Here’s hoping people figure out that the Fediverse is specifically designed to solve that problem.
Ah right, when I leave Instagram, the people who have 2 million+ followers are gonna follow me to the fediverse. Yup that’s how that works, thank you very much for being so damn helpful today.
Inb4 “if everyone does it”. If everyone stopped driving their car, the government would be forced to make our cities more walkable. But that’s simply not gonna happen is it?
Sorry you got downvoted. It’s not an unpopular sentiment, it’s just a very tired one at this point. If everyone who made that argument instead just left, the problem wouldn’t exist.
And yeah, the people you follow are there because it’s where their audience is. If you want them to move, you gotta be the change you wanna see.
I mean, you’re here, so I have to assume I’m preaching to the choir to some extent.
Lol less that 1% of users probably think about the prerequisite line of thinking to even start that argument, then probably 1% of those would make that argument. A fraction of a percent won’t cause any change at all.
What has been proven time and time and time and time again are that humans are extremely extremely lazy and will not do anything at all unless there is a direct and present threat to them or their way of life. Hence why the wealth gap can be almost the worst in history with only 1 person actually having done something at all meaningful about it across the world. People still haven’t moved off of fucking twitter, they aren’t going to move off of Instagram. Especially not when “influencers” that draw the most people make their livelihood specifically from being on Instagram.
From my bubble, Meta and Zuckerberg are widely despised by the general public and have been for the better part of the last couple decades. I’ve never met a person who wants to be on their platform, only people who have to be. But you’re probably right, most of the users probably don’t even know who Zuckerberg is, or that Facebook ever renamed themselves.
But are the personalities you want to follow on there really pulling an audience that…simple?
I already got rid of tiktok, twitter and facebook. Instagram is my last way of communicating with friends and to follow new releases of my favourite musicians etc. If I have to get rid of that too I might as well get rid of my phone and go live in a cave somewhere.
Oh no you won’t be able to waste time online watching people who don’t give a fuck about you. What ever will you do? Have some principals and walk away.
You will survive and find some other dipshits to follow around don’t worry.
I’d love to uninstall it but I can’t follow the people I want to follow anywhere else
I’ve ended up using Patreon way more now
You wanna know why they’re there? Because you’re there. The ol’ catch-22 of social media walled gardens. Inconvenient for literally everyone except the guys running them.
Here’s hoping people figure out that the Fediverse is specifically designed to solve that problem.
Ah right, when I leave Instagram, the people who have 2 million+ followers are gonna follow me to the fediverse. Yup that’s how that works, thank you very much for being so damn helpful today.
Inb4 “if everyone does it”. If everyone stopped driving their car, the government would be forced to make our cities more walkable. But that’s simply not gonna happen is it?
Sorry you got downvoted. It’s not an unpopular sentiment, it’s just a very tired one at this point. If everyone who made that argument instead just left, the problem wouldn’t exist.
And yeah, the people you follow are there because it’s where their audience is. If you want them to move, you gotta be the change you wanna see.
I mean, you’re here, so I have to assume I’m preaching to the choir to some extent.
Lol less that 1% of users probably think about the prerequisite line of thinking to even start that argument, then probably 1% of those would make that argument. A fraction of a percent won’t cause any change at all.
What has been proven time and time and time and time again are that humans are extremely extremely lazy and will not do anything at all unless there is a direct and present threat to them or their way of life. Hence why the wealth gap can be almost the worst in history with only 1 person actually having done something at all meaningful about it across the world. People still haven’t moved off of fucking twitter, they aren’t going to move off of Instagram. Especially not when “influencers” that draw the most people make their livelihood specifically from being on Instagram.
That is simply not even true, because that would be like 0.01% of all Instagram users. It wouldn’t make a dent.
From my bubble, Meta and Zuckerberg are widely despised by the general public and have been for the better part of the last couple decades. I’ve never met a person who wants to be on their platform, only people who have to be. But you’re probably right, most of the users probably don’t even know who Zuckerberg is, or that Facebook ever renamed themselves.
But are the personalities you want to follow on there really pulling an audience that…simple?
well thanks for calling my friends dumb I guess
Having principles means being willing to give something up now and then, whether you get the outcome you want or not.
I already got rid of tiktok, twitter and facebook. Instagram is my last way of communicating with friends and to follow new releases of my favourite musicians etc. If I have to get rid of that too I might as well get rid of my phone and go live in a cave somewhere.
Oh no you won’t be able to waste time online watching people who don’t give a fuck about you. What ever will you do? Have some principals and walk away.
You will survive and find some other dipshits to follow around don’t worry.
well idk what you’re doing but I’m not following dipshits