For now

My condo has one. I use it.

every new tech has curves for their maturity, cultural & societal fit.

I’d believe this “nothing to see here” narrative if recent “advances” such as social media didn’t have measurable negative impacts. Things can get worse, and technology can assist that.

The voices coming out as skeptical of things, and the watchdogs telling you early on that these newly introduced things may present a problem are ultimately part of the apparatus that gets you “cultural and societal fit”. That doesn’t happen automatically and it’s called “the bleeding edge” for a reason.

Ultimately, I’m also not so sure about AI being a fad at this point. It sure looks like enough capital is invested in this stuff to make it be a thing even if nobody wants it.

Computers

If history is any guide they’ll moan and complain, 2% of them will not buy the subscription, and then the other 98% will bend over and take it up the ass.

Reddit is still doing just fine.

It’s already popular enough to be a meme scroll substitute for Reddit so I’m good.

More of an issue with “it’s morally wrong of two billion people to even consider having a Meta account of any kind”,

I didn’t read that anywhere, but it could be here and if it was i wouldn’t agree with it at all.

I feel like this hits a nerve for you in some way it shouldn’t. You aren’t anything for having a Meta account besides someone that has a Meta account.

Lol whatever. Stop caping for evil ass corporations and then trying to couch your positions in pseudo leftist bullshit.

It’s completely fine actually for someone to be like i ain’t buying that fucking optional doodad because i don’t want to deal with the corporate overlord that owns it.

Can you count?

And your claim that your performative anger isn’t about making a point, but rather to “improve your life” doesn’t quite line up with your ardent defense of the idea that you express or withdraw support by using money.

Performative anger? WTF are you even talking about?

Money just is a form of support, and that’s not a notion. They even call payment to your children fucking “child support”.

your argument that you don’t care because you’re too American to be concerned about how people do things elsewhere is not as good of a look as you may have thought it was when you wrote it.

It isn’t an argument. It’s reality. Also i frankly don’t give a shit what it looks like.

Your response was paragraphs of bullshit.

There’s not going to be any slow realization for me. Nobody in my country uses this shit at all and even if they did I still wouldn’t.

Part of the problem with your point of view is that you think everyone gives a shit about controlling or intends to control the behavior of these companies through purchasing and usage patterns. Maybe some people do intend that. I don’t, and I’m sure there are others that don’t either.

I don’t purchase this shit from these corporations or use their bullshit because it improves my life not to.

See this makes a bit more sense than the weirdo wall of text I got.

So you’re saying sms does work on your phones, but it’s not commonplace so…guess if everyone’s using Satan’s butthole app instead might as well join the pack?

You have no idea how delusional you sound, this is like oh nobody makes phone calls anymore, instead they call through evilcorp ringytimes in my country so i guess i just have to give them all my personal information and offer up my first born, and it’s actually the fault of you guys…who don’t use this that evil corp requires that!

You’re no superhero for not buying a thing you don’t need anyway.

And you’re no superhero for writing several thousands of words on lemmy about how we should make completely optional purchases of products from companies we hate and that make us angry.

You’re just a corporate apologist.

Who cares?

Why does a texting app have a network effect for you? Is SMS completely unavailable on people’s phones in your country? Or are you just afraid of seeming a little bit different from the pack?

I hate this notion that money is support. It is not.

Lol, that’s not a “notion” at all, it’s reality.

Even with the case of them providing a cheap headset, they’re betting (and they’re often correct, and always correct in aggregate) that you will make it up to them in other ways (e.g. your data, software purchases, etc.).

In the meantime I continue to argue that if you boycott people on the basis of their reputation without reversing that stance when they reverse their behavior then you’re not “boycotting” anything, you’re just removing yourself from the pool of possible customers altogether.

Dude, Meta has been and continues to be fucking terrible. If you don’t understand why then i guess you’ve been living in your closet in a VR headset for the last two decades.

But hey, I do have a Whatsapp account because it’s pretty much mandatory to exist in society,

I’ve never encountered a situation in which I’ve needed to use WhatsApp for anything. Today i guess i learned that i don’t “exist in society” or something. 😆