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submitted 1 week ago by Arda@piefed.social to c/matrix@lemmy.ml

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/59618561

Things like necessary age verifications are annoying to the average user and can potentially be motivating enough to move the masses to something like matrix. I don't see that happening without the current big centralized platforms enshitifying anyway so these news make me more happy than anything, finally I can see my normie friends get annoyed enough by the standard to do a little bit of research about alternatives. Am I wrong in thinking this, would any big change ever happen without massive platforms getting worse ?

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[-] Krafting@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago
[-] Arda@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

How else will the masses stop using these platforms?

[-] Mandarbmax@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Social media accelerationist is a pretty unexpected position for someone to have. I don't agree but I kinda dig it

[-] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'd be happy to see people leave closed centralized proprietary platforms, but I don't think Matrix has great UX, people will probably go to something else instead

[-] artyom@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

People will never leave but centralized platforms, no matter what. I mean look at Xitter. They killed the API, cranked up the ads, got turned into a Nazi platform, became a nudify platform, etc. What more could they possibly do to drive people away?

[-] Arda@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

if changes can be ignored they will be ignored, something unavoidable like age verification will have a larger impact on the average user than any of those changes imo

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