I had to update the pic; forgot the biggest culprit -Microsoft. They got slapped with a fine of $731 million. I try not to think about this company at all but I had to fix it. The meme gods had to be appeased.
Also, I remember that Nextflix only bent the knee by agreeing to 30% of their content being local, but really tempted to add 'em.
Hopefully the Next Flex will be Netflix - for the meme-ability. Elon won’t do it, he would have already done. He is just exercising free speech, nothing more. If he does get in the ring, then I’ll join X 😬 & pay his subscription for a year. 👀

  • penquin@lemm.ee
    231·
    3 years ago

    Add end to end encryption to the mix. They’ve been doing so well until they messed with that.

  • Clbull@lemmy.world
    2513·
    3 years ago

    I realised something. If all of these big tech firms collectively banded together and left the EU market in joint protest towards their regulations, how quickly would these countries go into civil unrest?

    Social media addiction is no joke…

    • schema@lemmy.world
      95·
      3 years ago

      About as quickly as alternative platforms can replace them because of the incredible market advantage.

        • RBG@discuss.tchncs.de
          212·
          3 years ago

          Threads is a terrible example of this. They just made everyone with an instagram account there. Not saying the others are better examples, mastodon has quite the user numbers by now but is probably still too niche in use.

        • LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world
          724·
          3 years ago

          Yeah all 2k of you. Lemmy is an absolute failure in bringing in new users at a commercial failure. No way most of the population is going to go on here with tankie communist admins banning people left and right, and talks about defederation every week from the rest.

          This is peak.

          • irmoz@reddthat.com
            23·
            3 years ago

            Calling Lemmy a commercial failure shows a massive lack of understanding of even the basics of what Lemmy is.

            • LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world
              37·
              3 years ago

              🙄 I’m sure these servers will pay for themselves and admins are going to keep on doing their own csam scan each week and deal with the reporting for free forever.

              The donations go away. The goodwill goes away. Successful open source communities always get commercial backing.

              Bluesky is the likely winner here if anything.

              • irmoz@reddthat.com
                6·
                3 years ago

                Lemmy is not a commercial project, you’re thinking about it the wrong way. It’s run for free by volunteers.

                • LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world
                  27·
                  3 years ago

                  Open source projects without commercial backing die. Especially when they require infrastructure and aren’t personal services eg *are + jellyfin. You don’t have to like it but nearly every single one with a long life span has commercial support up or down stream.

              • StadA
                2·
                3 years ago

                As far as I know, we’re only the second people to even plan to try to make it profitable to run Lemmy for ourselves (as opposed to earning money from hosting instances for others) as one of multiple services because we certainly don’t think it’ll be enough to get people to pay by itself (I think it’s great, but on its own people would just pick a free instance) and we’ve not even launched yet (the only users of our services at the moment are friends of ours who have volunteered to test).

                So it’s a bit ludicrous to call it a commercial failure at a point where nobody has given it an actual try yet. Maybe nobody will find a way to make it work. It’s quite possible. Most new ventures fail, after all.

                I do agree that commercial backing is at least a big factor in making success more likely, though, which is one of the reasons we’ll be trying a somewhat commercial angle. I say somewhat because having taken venture capital in the past, we have no interest in doing that this time - we’re not interested in millions of users; we’d like it to be profitable and self-sustaining and a full-time job, and we can do that with “just” thousands of users, and make it sustainable to run indefinitely with hundreds. But I don’t think commercial backing is the only path that works.

                If anything I see it as usually being a case of a symbiotic evolution: Successful open communities bring commercial backing, and sure, commercial backing increases the chance of ongoing success. But without having a seed of something successful odds are you wouldn’t get that commercial backing to start with.

                And the best commercial backers are the ones who figure out how to be good and helpful parts of the community rather than try to dominate them. It’s far easier to deal with backers who grow with the community than people who come in with lots of capital and want to try to set direction. This is another reason why we don’t want to go talk to VCs, even though I know exactly what they’ll look for as I was involved in vetting hundreds of potential investments. It might make money, but that’s not the only measure of success.

            • StadA
              2·
              3 years ago

              The reason we’re looking at providing a paid Fediverse service is exactly that I looked at X and thought “I don’t mind paying, but not to you”. I’d spent thousands on ads for another business on Twitter in the past, so paying for verification would’ve been peanuts, but can’t bring myself to do it. The beauty of an open network is that people can try many different approaches, and several might work (and many will fail), so I agree it’ll be a long game.

          • awwwyissss@lemm.ee
            14·
            3 years ago

            Yeah, extremist political instances like hexbear and Lemmygrad are killing Lemmy.

            I’d be embarrassed to even tell anyone I use it in it’s current state, but I’m still hopeful it can clean up and be good.

      • bstix@feddit.dkEnglish
        10·
        3 years ago

        It would be nice with alternative platforms, but I think each and everyone of the originals would break the coalition attempting to screw the rest over and gain the market, long before alternatives could be made.

      • Chariotwheel@kbin.social
        6·
        3 years ago

        I mean, the established userbase and subsequently communities. That’s why I still look at Reddit sometimes, there are some communities that aren’t effectively on the Fediverse due to lack of users.

        But yeah. forcing the entire population out of a social media plattform by leaving the EU would change this quickly.

    • Demosthememes@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      7·
      3 years ago

      People might actually get some rest. The last few years have been hectic due to social media.
      I see your point though. Like how people took to the streets to protest the change of coca cola in '85. One protester went as far as say:

      “This makes me angry. I’m angry, and I’m mad. I feel injured. Betrayed. Like a sacred trust has been violated … People are having anxiety headaches. They’ve been placed in a distressed state."

      … because New Coke didn’t taste the same - they had to go back to coke ‘classic’. 🤷‍♂️

  • Lasherz@lemmy.world
    5·
    3 years ago

    US gets more consumer protections against predatory practices from EU authorities than US ones at this point…