• User_4272894@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    For a service like Twitter, where user numbers define value, using it is 100% supporting it. Again, the metaphor falls apart because suggesting they can’t use other options suggests they might die, which is painfully untrue for the vast majority of Twitter users (literally no user in a developed country relies on Twitter for life/death information in a way other sources can’t provide).

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      9 months ago

      There are plenty who twitter is their livelihood. Apparently they just can’t get the follower numbers on Mastadon (as well as struggle to use it). They are trapped. The magic invisible hand of the market is no substitute for regulation. You arguing consumer choice can solve this kind of problem and it clearly often can’t.