• JWBananas@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    There is no one true replacement for the utility that it provides. Not with sufficient penetration of network effect, anyway.

    Same reason most people don’t delete Facebook.

    You may not personally find utility in either of them. But just like boner pill spam, clearly someone does, or they would just go away.

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      3 days ago

      You could say the same thing about Reddit, yet a lot of us left there a year ago on principle. Sometimes taking a stand means doing without.

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            2 days ago

            same. when the blackout protest changed nothing about the 3rd party apps, I decided I was done, and never went back

            granted, it had been getting toxic for other reasons, but being forced to use their shitty app was the final straw for me

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        3 days ago

        The two are not mutually exclusive. But OP’s question was why “EVERYONE” has not deleted their account. And the objective answer is that some people obviously still use the service. But once again people are treating the downvote button as an “I don’t like this” button.

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      3 days ago

      lol the comparison of useless social media to useless boner pill ads is perfect. of course someone finds it useful. just like someone finds crack cocaine useful