Posted on 06/29/2021 8:13:37 AM PDT by ScubaDiver
To make it happen the government needed participation by private firms in executing what would be illegal for the government to do. Private enterprise subverted into tools of the state, enforcing despotism on their behalf in exchange for protections and privileges. Textbook fascism.
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That’s not why the userbase fled MySpace. They were already fleeing before that deal happened.
in short, the “cool kids” left the site to use facebook.
today such power is called being an “influencer”.
people stayed with vhs in the 80s because that is where the crowd was. not because it was the “best” format.
Eh, not quite. There were actually a couple of mass exoduses. The first one that happened was when trolls and scammers descended on MySpace, which didn’t do any sort of user verification whatsoever, and people began leaving in disgust - especially when MySpace refused to do anything about the mass scams going on. This was pre-Newscorp purchase.
The major user exodus came three years after the Newscorp purchase - Facebook implemented a lot more social networking features that MySpace didn’t have. And FaceBook had poached a lot of people from MySpace that management wasn’t listening to. FB implemented picture/post tagging (where you could notify people you’d specifically posted a pic) and “like”, among many others. With that additional interaction and the existing security delta, huge masses left for FB.
It wasn’t actually an influencer move. That came later when Twitter showed up and employed influencers to scrape away the remaining MySpacers - which is why Twitter is so radically leftist in user culture.
Except I remember the puking sounds of liberals ashamed to being on a platform owned by Murdoch.
And the gripes they had about Myspace (especially with regards to too many ads) are very much true in Facebook these days with consumers choose to stay.
Plenty of scammers too. Especially those hijacking users accounts and facebook unwilling to relinquish the pages to the rightful owners.
Also plenty of offshore scammers “selling their unused tickets” to free events on facebook. And hijacking event listings and starting their own listings (except they have the venue wrong etc).
Plenty of scams on facebook today and again if you report them FB says “So what, block so and so”.
Yup, but at the time a decade ago....
Thing was, the liberals fleeing wasn’t what brought MySpace down, but tonedeafness and failure to continue developing and innovating.
FB is starting to enter that phase now too.
FB has been suppressing content for years now, and not just “controversial” politics or science.
users opted in to follow this band or friend or whatever. But long story short, you have to pay to have your band’s content seen (and then it is promoted to people out of the region and who never opted into seeing it).
“downthrottling” is a thing at Facebook and people stay because for the time being there is nowhere else to go (and communicate this way).
A “neutral” site would present the pages you opted to view and stop shoveling other content at you because “it’s popular” or “promoted” or otherwise pushed.
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