if someone chooses to be on a platform and they don’t get any benefit from it then they shouldn’t be on it.

The platform owner(s) definitely have motivations and/or an agenda. Safe to assume the owner is a stakeholder and therefore is not guaranteed to be hands off forever.

Both of these are besides the point. The question is, why do people stay on a platform?

Centralised social media did, and is, doing extremely well by most metrics.

Such as censorship (everywhere). shadowbanning (X), ownership by an egomaniac slyster (X), blue badges (X), and being ganged up on (reddit). i’m ignoring platforms for addicts such as tiktok, youtube, and instagram.

Which matrix are we ignoring in order come to the conclusion legacy social media is doing well? Be specific.

we’re not missed

You are right.

At the same time, those platforms are not providing enough value for users to stick around.

i’m a milk tea addict. Carry around cinnamon and nutmeg. And hang out on github.

These are horrible vices. But no excuse for having divergent opinions.

Telegram is fine.

Signal will be gone tomorrow and you’ll lose your network. Moving networks from one platform to another is impossible. So we end up creating new networks.

Currently i’m making a network of Python coders i’ve collaborated with. The communication medium is not consistent nor ideal.

Hate email with a passion. So of course most the communication is going over plain text email. Tried pushing for communication on plain text mastodon.

Your welcome. Use it in good health. And please excuse my colorful prose.

There is many many comments on Telegram bleeding the phone number. And only one comment saying that doesn’t have to be the case.

You are right but

we like doing the wrong thing over and over again. And being surprised, each and every time, when it turns out to be wrong. Never picking up onto the repeating simple pattern.

1111111111111 what’s the next number … errrr Signal! That’s it you got it. Good job.

Embrace the idiocracy!

This is why Telegram is awesome.

Eventually you will come around and realize how hopeless humanity is and embrace that it is well beyond hope.

And then you will have a larger network and enjoy each and every one of them.

This 1 + 1 = 2 logic is boring. It’s trying to escape out of a wet paper bag over and over again. Whatever your 1 + 1 = 2 logic is their is another guy who can drive a bus staight thru it. Every single time.

In a year from now you will find out you are completely mistaken and just repeating nonsense. Every freak’n time.

Just for once, do the wrong thing. Make the wrong choice on purpose.

Instead of seeing never ending red flags. Today see purple flags. And tomorrow orange. Cuz why do flags always have to be red?

You can be right or you can have fun.

Do the wrong thing sometimes. Live a little.

Signal pretends not to.

I prefer Telegram’s honesty.

We are Telegram and we are here to help. And to make it more fun we will send all your communications to Russia for a change.

Oh man! Where do i sign up /nosarc

In Telegram, you never have to expose your phone number. If you like walking into traps then of course you can.

But can make minimal efforts to not be a degenerate avoiding this obvious easily avoidable trap.

How to avoid exposing your phone number

Make a group called i'm not a complete utter idiot. Whenever you have a friend wanting to connect, make a group link, send it to them, have them join. After joining have them send a message in the group. Just, “Hi”. Nothing more. Less is more.

Look for that message and click on the person’s name. You are now connected. Send them a personal message, “Hi!”.

You can also add them as a contact without sharing your phone number.

Your friend will probably be a degenerate and expose their phone number. Teach them how to go into settings to always hide it.

Try not to call them a degenerate, degenerates hate that.

Also try not to think of them as a degenerate, they will already know that and be proud of it and not understand why you don’t share their enthusiasm.

So control what thoughts you project into the ether. If you have to change the topic in your mind to something involving flowers singing birds and clouds.

recognizing the pattern of owners/mods abusing power and no one really agreeing what exactly that entails, will always find that decentralization is the way that it has to be.

We tried centralization and doesn’t go well. The answer is not to keep trying the same thing.

Eeeeeh!

Write spoiler alert

Wasn’t going onto MSM and reading the article

nvm

Clearly marked and qualified it as just my opinion

Will survive someone disagreeing with you.

and the only regret, there isn’t a gravestone to visit to piss on.

huuuu yeah

bring on the fireworks and lets get the show on

https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/it-appears-that-someone-urinated-on-rush-limbaughs-grave-39565153

i respect your opinion, your right to have an opinion, glad you shared your opinion, glad to read opposing opinions, Glad your opinion was not suppressed or censored or shadow banned, that someone having purchased access doesn’t drown out your opinion, and others refrained from ganging up to suppress the opposing view.

Sometimes in echo chambers the opposing opinion turns out to be right.

This is not one of those cases. <-- my opinion position

But i really liked that you posted and the opposing opinion was given a fair access to eye balls

with a federated linked network of social media sites run by it’s users

Regardless if he is a saint or not, it’s super centralized social media and we shouldn’t support it

We are all on federated lemmy and have moved off State owned or sponsored corporate social media.

Whether you lean left right or something else, everyone needs communication and financial privacy. Otherwise the State will crush you. Maybe not today or tomorrow, but on a long enough time line, it’s inevitable, YOU WILL BE CRUSHED.

The State and MSM lost the narrative. And we will not regress

Article? … there is an article?

Read the title, skipped MSM / one-way media article, came straight to the comment section

login walls, pay walls, spun prose, AI generated noise … no way. That era is over. Let it die. Have a funeral for it, put a stake in it, and a heavy slab over the gravesite.

Make sure that monster stays dead and buried.

Watching people infinite scroll is also like watching monkeys tossing proverbial dung in a zoo.

(btw i had to infinite scroll to read this threads comments until found this gem and replied. I’m prepared to evade monkeys with impure intentions and plenty of ammunition.)

Same goes for file managers. You telling me to search for content using one or two search factors? LOL!

People get a real search algo!

lets burn down our civilizations by spending all our wealth discussing this

The issue is based on legal terminology. Gender isn’t a legal thing only pushed into our vocabulary.

Allocate an unbound memory blob and sit back for the herd of the Rust coders to line up. Sell them a soda while they do their best chicken parody

The only way to pop a hmm boner is to apply tunnel vision to only view the situation in the context of Physics, completely ignoring or dismissing linguistics which is applying a word to describe the effects by a laymen.

A star bends light

A blackhole captures light

A planet maybe wobbles

So applying a term sucks in is completely valid, linguistically.

Then some dyslexic comes along to correct us. There is always these patronizing caunts. Do we really need to be reminded that black holes and gravity are correlated?!

urbandictionary comes along and another term is born, poking fun at these robotic patronizers

Captain Obvious the space between his ears is not a vacuum, it’s this or that gaddaingit!