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Is Facebook really fine though? All the interesting ppl I knew stopped using it a long time ago. People just use it to message a few specific ppl they know IRL and trade shit on FB marketplace, or spam pictures of their baby nobody wants to see, but everyone knows and acknowledges how garbage it has become.
Yeah, that’s super hip and all, but Facebook is still valued at 711.96 BILLION dollars, and growing. Just to put that into perspective, Reddit is valued at 2% of that…
As you can see, all the interesting ppl you know leaving the platform didn’t make anything to them as a company, and it’s exactly what is going to happen with Reddit as most people don’t even care about the API thing. The official app has 100+ million downloads vs Sync, for example, which has 1+ million downloads on the Play Store (and I’m sure that on the iOS side with Apollo it’s exactly the same if download data was public). Thousands of new adopters will keep arriving every single day, new communities will be created. Next thing you know, your grandma hangs around in knitting subreddits.
As I’ve said, corpos will win at the end of the day, unless they get the middle finger from everyone, not just the 1% of its community.
I never said the majority of people in the world are all that wise.. p sure the only reason we've gotten where we are, the only reason we have anything nice we have, is by a rare few in the population questioning the aimless groupthink momentum.
Look at all the garbage music celebrities that 80% of people worship, and how that shapes what's played on the radio, at the gym, the grocery store. This seems to just be human nature. Most people are just going to follow orders dictated by pop culture. Is that who you want to be?
You tried to question Facebook being fine and I just shared cold numbers with you, and now you’re trying to question "who am I want to be"?
Don’t beat around the bush: neither Facebook and Reddit need you or your special hipster friends to thrive. You can argue that now they’re both trash websites all you want, and that this is the new oasis, but that’s your point of view out of the 1.660 billion active users that visit Reddit each month, and growing.
And also, you made that heroic-sounding comment criticizing "group mentalities" and then proceed to talk in plural about how "we" ended up here. The joke tells itself. 🥹
If they don't need us to thrive, they should just get over people leaving.
I don't care about market values, stocks, "group mentalities", or any of that. Those specific things relating to Reddit have no bearing on my personal life. I don't care if Reddit thrives or dies at this point. I am done with that company over personal values.
Additionally, I don't miss the toxic comments. I don't miss people insulting others at the drop of a hat over minor disagreements. I don't the miss the poorly-veiled put downs. I don't miss the condescending tones.
I am happy that I left Reddit. Now that I'm gone, I don't think anything could ever make me go back.
Why exactly are we arguing? If you wanna use Facebook and Reddit, go right ahead I'm not standing in your way, but I'll not be a part of it. Reddit was like 60% crap to me already and now it's 100% crap. If Lemmy somehow turns crap I'll just go touch grass more..