Kleinbonum @ Kleinbonum @feddit.de

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Many "tech journalists" are about as old as Facebook.

When they started using devices, the iPhone had been around for years, and the only discussion platforms they ever knew where centralized platforms with millions and millions of users run by mega corporations. In their personal life experience, Reddit has always just existed, they've never known a world without YouTube, Snapchat is what they used when they were little kids, TikTok had been around long enough that's it's considered an established media outlet.

They've never seen a Usenet group, they've never had accounts on phpbb forums. Choosing a smaller platform with a more selective userbase just doesn't exist in their reality.

People whine about how shitty the API has become and how shitty tech support is and how there's no one to talk to when they run into bugs - yet they keep paying Musk $42,000 a month for that privilege.

Refuse to pay bills for your clouds infrastructure.

Refuse to pay rent for your offices.

Big brain time.

That's also the problem with any kind of forum that satirizes conservatives on the internet: sooner or later, it will get flooded with right wingers who completely fail to understand that they're being made fun of, and who will start posting the satirized content in all seriousness.

Eventually, the original people who started the venue leave, and what's left is just another right-wing echo chamber.