I want them both to lose.

And I think it’s likely, too.

Modern social media companies are so fucking desperate to make money, they are screwing over and alienating users faster and faster.

My hope is that eventually they will end up on the fediverse, because as long as they only hop from corporate bs to corporate bs, they won’t find a platform that just leaves them alone.

When I was 15, for some reason a new social media platform launch made me excited. Twitter? Sign me up. Google is launching a new cool social media called Google Plus? Let’s go.

Nowadays? I use one: Lemmy. I wouldn’t touch a single big tech social media platform, and if Lemmy dies out… Guess I’m not using this type of service again.

I’ll post a positive option to mix things up:

It’s a polished product, with no ads, no TikTok style video knockoffs, high quality photo uploads, and a decent recommendation engine. It has all the ingredients it needs for success.

Now, don’t get me wrong, Meta will likely ruin it eventually by A/B testing it to death to maximize revenue.

You mean (definitely not Facebook) is releasing Twitter2^TM with a WHOPPING 500 character limit? So a company that’s perpetually abused it’s customers data is offering an alternative for castoffs from Reddit where they can serve you ads, limit your messages, and collect your data at the same time… in place of an already existent community driven instance of an open-source protocol / the ability to run my own instance? Fucking sign me up bro. Please Daddy Zuck, take it all! >:D

One of the first things I saw when I arrived here 3 weeks ago was a graphic showing how much of your personal data it tracks? Wish I could find that now…