alt Hacker Newsi don't understand this doomer mentality regarding the internet.
internet is a service that you choose what to engage and how. don't like a platform? find another, build it or stop using it altogether.
personally, i find these things really great has it helps nudge people into the more decentralized web. a few years ago those who were pushing for privacy respecting apps and platforms were deemed too paranoid.
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Schlagbohrer • today at 4:08 PM
Many people make their livings from these platforms. They cant leave without abandoning most of their income stream.
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Network effects will keep a person on a platform until a critical mass of their social circle decide to leave all at once. I'm no expert, but I suspect that that critical mass is pretty high, maybe more than 50% of a person's circle. So it's not exactly vanilla free-market competition. Entrenched players have a pretty big advantage.