The role of attrition against mainstream platforms (Discussion) (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago by whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Mainstream platforms such as Meta and X have accumulated a near-universal audience that is the root of all their evil. From sentiment analysis mass experiments to propagandistic political advertising. Things are worse in third countries where they are even less moderated. So I was thinking that as long as FOSS/Privacy is just geeky and elitist they just keep doing business as usual, from enshitification to fascism. Additionally, people have moved their political posting, scheduling, discussion online, so this gives them more power. Like seeing anarchist groups on Facebook is cringe, but some insist that "that is where the mass is, perhaps we move to Instagram to get to more Zedders". Whaaaat? Questions: What tactics could be used to move people en masse away from mainstream platforms, and more generally, do you think there is a point in it?

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[-] morgin@lemm.ee 17 points 4 months ago

Questions: What tactics could be used to move people en masse away from mainstream platforms

Keep letting large platforms run themselves into the ground. Has been working with twitter, each substantial change is causing more and more people to ask why in the hell do I wanna stay. Other then that just push those you know to use alternatives

I was able to easily convince friends to switch to firefox from chrome when they announced all those changes to their ad system

[-] whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 months ago

convince friends to switch to firefox from chrome

Ah yes, you reminded me of this gem https://contrachrome.com/ (It is Scott McCloud's Webcomic against Chrome's data mining)

[-] yonder@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

What a gem indeed.

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