Most people don't really care [enough] about things like privacy, their personal intellectual property (aka content they post/create) or copyright, whether their data/content/habits are being harvested, analyzed and sold or used to train generative AI, etc. But they will complain about fake/scam/spam garbage, and all the advertising, censorship and various features or usability problems.Still for some strange reason people on Fecesbook (or fill in the blank with practically any bigtechmegaco) seem to have no interest in using a platform which has better technical features and doesn't have all the garbage. The whole dopamine/addiction triggers and the huge sums spent on applying such psychological research data to their interface/platforms must be a big part of that "some strange reason."It's time to bring "Buy Local" [back?] to 'cloud' and other IT services
For example, take the one I call Fecesbook (because it is now quite a cesspool). I won't even go into the privacy issues, selling user data, violation of FTC orders that has them in the news again. For now, let's just consider the basic ad stuff. In addition to the typical advertising plastered everywhere and injected into one's feed/stream, a few years ago they started a different kind of ad posting that appears like any other normal post. I don't recall what it's technically called but I believe the option to buy such paid posts are available to anyone. While there may on rare occasion be a legit individual or small business attempting some real advertising/marketing, these posts are mostly bought by spam/scam/fake accounts. What matters to bigtechmegacorp (aka Meta, in this case) most is revenue. Why the legacy social media model of bigtech is destined for the dumpster
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