This is why having a figurative canary and/or persistent ‘rent-lowering gunshots’ in place on a site is a good thing. The less advertiser friendly a place is, the better, and if that thing keeping advertisers out is the content itself then I’m all for helping that along a bit.
Well that’s depressing. It’s a barren land of advertisements being played on 24/7 with no actual people saying something actually relevant.
fediverse got zucced!
The inevitable enshittification.
But my real question is, who the fuck falls for that corpo bullshit?
Apparently a lot of people, judging by how popular Threads gets just in a few days.
It’s the shiny stuff. Honestly, I wouldn’t mind corporate accounts and instances as long as the corpos don’t steamroll everything they reach into giant advertisement panels.
Yeah, that never happens.
It’s mostly brand recognition/staying power. The Internet is a very scary place for normies, especially uncharted waters. Megacorps on the other hand bring a safe experience (lol) where they and their friends can hang out, chat, shop, consume etc.
I wouldn’t mind a safe space, especially if I wanted my grandparents hang out with the extended family. There’s time and reason for watching PG rated movies and be wholesome. That’s fine.
The thing is, people like us also want a ‘nullsec’ space to have fun exploring when they’re not hanging out with their family or coworkers. The internet being colonized by corpos meant we were losing that way.
Aren’t you assuming the up votes are organic? I personally assume 90% of everything online is just computers and call centres talking to each other.
lemmy also has the same problem.
