I had to update the pic; forgot the biggest culprit -Microsoft. They got slapped with a fine of $731 million. I try not to think about this company at all but I had to fix it. The meme gods had to be appeased.
Also, I remember that Nextflix only bent the knee by agreeing to 30% of their content being local, but really tempted to add 'em.
Hopefully the Next Flex will be Netflix - for the meme-ability. Elon won’t do it, he would have already done. He is just exercising free speech, nothing more. If he does get in the ring, then I’ll join X 😬 & pay his subscription for a year. 👀
Add end to end encryption to the mix. They’ve been doing so well until they messed with that.
deleted by creator
I realised something. If all of these big tech firms collectively banded together and left the EU market in joint protest towards their regulations, how quickly would these countries go into civil unrest?
Social media addiction is no joke…
About as quickly as alternative platforms can replace them because of the incredible market advantage.
Lemmy, Threads and Mastodon proved they just move to the next network.
Yeah all 2k of you. Lemmy is an absolute failure in bringing in new users at a commercial failure. No way most of the population is going to go on here with tankie communist admins banning people left and right, and talks about defederation every week from the rest.
This is peak.
Go back to reddit.
No.
deleted by creator
Yeah, extremist political instances like hexbear and Lemmygrad are killing Lemmy.
I’d be embarrassed to even tell anyone I use it in it’s current state, but I’m still hopeful it can clean up and be good.
I’m somewhat hopeful lemmy world has the idea, but I’m less hopeful the community is going to keep the lights on with bills.
Yeah that’s a hurdle the fediverse has yet to address.
I don’t think these sites have anything inherent that can’t be replicated and replaced rather quickly
Man i hope so. That would be the wet dream of any free alernative and startup
People might actually get some rest. The last few years have been hectic due to social media.
I see your point though. Like how people took to the streets to protest the change of coca cola in '85. One protester went as far as say:“This makes me angry. I’m angry, and I’m mad. I feel injured. Betrayed. Like a sacred trust has been violated … People are having anxiety headaches. They’ve been placed in a distressed state."
… because New Coke didn’t taste the same - they had to go back to coke ‘classic’. 🤷♂️
deleted by creator
US gets more consumer protections against predatory practices from EU authorities than US ones at this point…
First post - K.O.
