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[-] DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip 8 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Lol "that one company that's worth millions of dollars that you remember from your teen years did just fine after they left that website and bought another company that was worth millions with a name we all recognized since our early 20's! If they can do it, why can't you??" You also gloss over the fact that they relied on Facebook and Twitter to get the recognition they ever got in the first place.

Come on now. Surely you understand if you're selling wooden bowls you carve yourself or a local lawn care company and need to have the largest presence for that Facebook and twitter are virtually the only way. Sure there's radio and building your own website but all that costs money and time. If you don't have that you are forced to use Facebook and Twitter.

Unless you like running a business that performs poorly compared to the competitors around you, that is. That is still an option!

I hate twitter and Facebook and reddit and all that shit too its a privacy nightmare but everyone acting like you can do just fine with a business without that without having astronomical cost increases and headaches along the way is lying to themselves and everyone else around them.

I want everyone to leave too but acting like a pompous ass about it and saying "you have no excuse not to succeed without the tools others around you succeeding are using!" Isn't the way to do it.

[-] Zagorath@quokk.au 1 points 1 hour ago

Unfortunately I think you're right about Facebook. If you're not on Facebook you're putting yourself at a significant disadvantage in terms of reaching a broad audience. If you're a small customer-facing (i.e. not B2B) business or grassroots organisation you need to be on Facebook.

But I just don't think the same thing is true of Xitter. And hasn't been since long before paedo guy bought it. Average people don't use Twitter and never have. It's used by a smaller group of journalists, techies, and the terminally online.

[-] halezinflames@lemmus.org 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I'll gladly judge someone not willing to leave the nazi pedo site just because they might lose a few bot followers, sorry. Look at Wukko, the guy behind Helium Browser. All he does is whine that people don't like AI and act condescending towards people who raise issues about the project. It's really bizarre the way that guy acts.

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