• _____@lemm.ee
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    11 hours ago

    very hot take:

    regular people will never get rid of twitter or meta, Facebook. YouTube. it’s incompatible with their psychology.

    they need to use what other people are using, they need to see “content” from their followed users

    switching to another platform will kill that for them for weeks and stall their “growth”

    to be forward thinking and to give up something you’ve had is too much for the average person

    which is why I’m on Lemmy: there’s nothing reddit offers to me that makes me “give” it up, it’s always been there but now that there’s competition it’s worth trying something new out

    I honestly think id anything Lemmy will have a slow decrease of users until it comes to a halt

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      10 hours ago

      I mean, noone used reddit 10 years ago. To a 37 year old like myself, that seems like the reddit shit blew up out of nowhere. Youtube is just a matter of time and outcome of future google break up cases before a legitimate competition comes for its industry share. FB will die with the boomers. The only one I see as a really unmovable object is Twitter because of the universal use by all major sports media/reporting/journalists. It’s the only one with end users applying the platform in any comercial sense outside of marketing. I think the question OP is asking will on the reliance of one of the other platforms falling.

      Just my opinion tho so take it with a grain of salt.

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        1 hour ago

        Everyone looks at mega businesses as immune to decay. They’re not it just takes longer.

        I think “x” may actually be the first to topple though. It’s losing money at an insane rate and that’s with a mega election year propping it up. That’s one of the reasons Elon is pushing Trump so hard, is for the government bail out he’ll get.