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There is no one true replacement for the utility that it provides. Not with sufficient penetration of network effect, anyway.
Same reason most people don't delete Facebook (edit: or Reddit).
You may not personally find utility in either of them. But just like boner pill spam, clearly someone does, or they would just go away.
lol the comparison of useless social media to useless boner pill ads is perfect. of course someone finds it useful. just like someone finds crack cocaine useful
But boner pills aren't replaceable (like Twitter) or unnecessary (like crack). Sexuality isn't a vice.
i'm not talking about boner pills. or any pills. we're talking about the uselessness of twitter and ads
if you're making your meds decisions based on ads made by the company selling them to you, then sorry--that's dumb af
You could say the same thing about Reddit, yet a lot of us left there a year ago on principle. Sometimes taking a stand means doing without.
damn, it's already been over a year, hasn't it?
Yeah, over fifteen months since I created my account here for that reason
same. when the blackout protest changed nothing about the 3rd party apps, I decided I was done, and never went back
granted, it had been getting toxic for other reasons, but being forced to use their shitty app was the final straw for me
Same with me. Well, that in combination with the way they treated the app developers. I honestly didn't have an issue with Reddit trying to make money, or trying to prevent all the LLMs from skimming their content for free, but there was no reason to cut the app developers off at the knees.
I had already changed my relationship/view of Reddit years prior when the internet connection to Russia was severed for a day or so and so many subs (especially political ones) became fundamentally different. Hard to ignore that. But i just couldn't continue to give free content to such an awful company.
Without cake days I have no sense of time.
The two are not mutually exclusive. But OP's question was why "EVERYONE" has not deleted their account. And the objective answer is that some people obviously still use the service. But once again people are treating the downvote button as an "I don't like this" button.
Edit to add: Why? What exactly is wrong with what I said?