• Mossy Feathers (She/They)@pawb.social
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    10 months ago

    My impression of the main microblogging sites has been:

    Twitter: musk fanboys, celebrities and people who can’t/won’t switch

    Threads: conservatives, alt-right, grifters and celebrities

    Truth social: conspiracy nuts, maggots, alt-right

    Mastodon/kbin: nerds, left-wingers and furries

    Bluesky: furries, left-wingers and people who liked pre-musk Twitter

  • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
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    10 months ago

    Damn i hate that word so much. What are they supposed to influence? They are advertiser, period. Influencer should be reserve for someone who actually contribute to the society, not some clown on tiktok/insta doing memes and jokes.

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      10 months ago

      They are called “influencers” because the ghouls that work in marketing realised that they are an extremely effective tool for their ongoing psychological warfare arms race

    • FiskFisk33@startrek.website
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      10 months ago

      I’d say you have that backwards

      Influencer is the word companies use for people with a following, and therefore power over peoples buying decisions.

      For some reason it’s leaked and been misappropriated.

      If you actually make something of value you are whatever that thing is, AND a potential influencer of buying decisions.

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      10 months ago

      What I really hate is when actual content creators get lumped in with that name.

  • awwwyissss@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Completely agree. Use the nuclear option immediately to defend the fediverse from the sociopathic transnational corporation Meta.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Don’t say that around here. You’ll get a thousand sycophants down your throat bleating “It’S ThE uSeR’s ChOiCe!!!” and that you’re “against free speech” and “just as bad as Meta” if you want us to disconnect from them.

      I’m with you, though. Meta is evil and we should not be doing business with them in any way. Any user who wants to make the “choice” to do business with Meta can do it using one of Meta’s many own products instead.

  • OpenStars@discuss.online
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    10 months ago

    But won’t somebody please think of those poor billionaires who want us to buy those things that they pay influencers to sell on Threads!? /s

    Ironically one of the top things I cherish in life is not having to watch such ads, which is why I am not on Threads/Facebook/Meta/Twitter/X or even Reddit (except one sub that won’t move here) in the first place.