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Completely agree. Use the nuclear option immediately to defend the fediverse from the sociopathic transnational corporation Meta.
Don’t say that around here. You’ll get a thousand sycophants down your throat bleating “It’S ThE uSeR’s ChOiCe!!!” and that you’re “against free speech” and “just as bad as Meta” if you want us to disconnect from them.
I’m with you, though. Meta is evil and we should not be doing business with them in any way. Any user who wants to make the “choice” to do business with Meta can do it using one of Meta’s many own products instead.
But won’t somebody please think of those poor billionaires who want us to buy those things that they pay influencers to sell on Threads!? /s
Ironically one of the top things I cherish in life is not having to watch such ads, which is why I am not on Threads/Facebook/Meta/Twitter/X or even Reddit (except one sub that won’t move here) in the first place.
My impression of the main microblogging sites has been:
Twitter: musk fanboys, celebrities and people who can’t/won’t switch
Threads: conservatives, alt-right, grifters and celebrities
Truth social: conspiracy nuts, maggots, alt-right
Mastodon/kbin: nerds, left-wingers and furries
Bluesky: furries, left-wingers and people who liked pre-musk Twitter
You heard it here first, Lemmy is where the normies hang out.
Lemmy: Linux fan boys who will hear no wrong. Also the gays
Lemmy is 1000% not for normies. Not yet, anyway.
I don’t want to gatekeep, but I’m really enjoying Lemmy without normies. It reminds me of the pre-2k internet. Nerds and weirdos just being themselves and celebrating each other’s weirdness.
Mastodon/kbin: nerds, left-wingers and furries
Being a Mastodon user does not make me a nerd, left-winger furry.
I mean,
I am a left-winger furry nerd,
But not because I’m on Mastodon!
something something correlation/causation
Damn i hate that word so much. What are they supposed to influence? They are advertiser, period. Influencer should be reserve for someone who actually contribute to the society, not some clown on tiktok/insta doing memes and jokes.
They are called “influencers” because the ghouls that work in marketing realised that they are an extremely effective tool for their ongoing psychological warfare arms race
Worst of all is that I don’t even know how to find realistic reviews for things, like smartphones, anymore - all the reviewers seem to have become “influencers” and lie to your face like “people say that this happens, but I never saw it”. Bullsh!t you didn’t, when it happens to basically everyone:-(. (even if the phone manufacturer sent them a souped-up item that actually works, the influencer is still collaborating with them, knowing that that will happen)
It is easy to cure ignorance, simply with knowledge, but how do we get around misinformation now, without spending the time to become personal experts on every tiny aspect of life these days?
Late-stage capitalism sucks skibidi toilet :-(.
I’d say you have that backwards
Influencer is the word companies use for people with a following, and therefore power over peoples buying decisions.
For some reason it’s leaked and been misappropriated.
If you actually make something of value you are whatever that thing is, AND a potential influencer of buying decisions.
What I really hate is when actual content creators get lumped in with that name.
