Increasing the echo chambers of conspiracy theorists, extremist and with that influencing things like elections seems quite the impact to me. All these mega corporations could’ve tried to limit these things, but probably that would’ve looked bad on their balance sheets.
Add to this the insane amount of data harvesting they do on their users and in general just making every damn platform worse from year to year while only looking for ever more profits.
Increasing “value” for shareholders in spite of user experience should be a reason to be sent to the guillotine.
In al seriousness now, being profitable is ok, but these companies try to be ever more profitable while not giving a flying fuck about the impact they have.
And if everyone still jumps ship from lemmy/kbin/whatever to their proprietary platform then the project was doomed from the beginning. I find kBin really good for such a new product (can’t speak for mod tools) and I can’t imagine many features that might make Threads preferable.
My feeling also. I really doubt so many people were eager to create an account and engage on a totally new and untested platform that has nothing novel really.
Another downside for non native English speakers is that there seems to be relatively few foreign languages books. I could barely find anything in Romanian.
I grew such hatred for this man in the past years I wish he would just ruin himself and not hear a delusional thing from him ever again.