It boggles my mind that anyone, outside of the far-right lunatic fringe, is still on that platform. I left months before Elon Musk showed up, because they weren't doing enough to fight misinformation in 2020, and now it's an absolute dumpster fire. I can only guess there's something like the sunk cost fallacy at work here, and that's why people are reluctant to leave.
Let's be real, it's not even that the changes will lose corporations money, it's that the changes will lower their disgustingly bloated earnings by a marginal amount that makes them panic.
I almost don't want them to succeed, so the exodus can continue to happen. Then again, I don't want this overrun with their overwhelmingly idiot userbase.
y tho (lemmy.ml)
Fully reticulated all splines (beehaw.org)
Yeah keep 'em Reddit (lemmy.one)
Twitter US ad sales plunged 59%, and internal forecasts are grim, NYT reports (arstechnica.com)
The growing list of subreddits going to be dark, but these are Lemmy or /kbin equivalents
Based on this...
Apple at this point is just scared of change and anything that isn't theirs (lemmy.ml)
Wagner captures Russian commander as Prigozhin feud with army escalates (www.theguardian.com)
Well, this war continues to go interestingly.
Why is /r/Videos shutting down on June 12th? How will this change affect regular users? More info here. (lemmy.cloudhub.social)
The /r/videos mods are going all out and someone made this lovely graphic to explain why subs are going dark next week....
Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat to third-party apps (www.theverge.com)
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China tightens access to Tiananmen Square while 32 are detained in Hong Kong (www.npr.org)
North Korea says its attempt to launch its first spy satellite ended in failure (www.npr.org)