this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2024
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For most users, price and convenience. That's been made very clear over and over again.
Sure, but eventually the lack of freedom and security drives them away when the service enshittifies thoroughly.
That's what we like to think. Facebook, Google, kinda shows us most users are perfectly happy to continue taking abuse, though
With social media companies, they seem unassailable, until the trust thermocline is breached, and then they collapse all at once.
Facebook has been losing users for years though.
Fortunately anyone using Lemmy is likely not one of those "most users"
As lemmy becomes mainstream, those users will become the average user here. Eternal September is just the way of things