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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 day ago (3 children)

People that still use meta

What a bunch of losers

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

For some types of businesses, particularly smaller ones, IG is literally a critical part of marketing. SEO alone often doesn't cut it, if Google also takes into account activity on other platforms, and even then a majority of website activity comes from people seeing posts on Instagram.

No clue how the most recent enshittification affects that, but I doubt the core recommendation logic will have changed radically.

It's fucked, but the tech corps sucking off each other makes self-employment hard if you don't play their games.

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Considering that's how most cities get info out kinda makes sense people still use it. Not to mention good luck getting little ol' grandma to switch to signal or Lemmy

[–] foo@feddit.uk 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Public institutions would be better using something like Mastodon for announcements. They'd have the option to retain full control over their instance and citizens wouldn't need an account to access it.

Definitely. The problem is the worlds run by corpo fascists and they will do everything they can to maintain their control through tech.

If the right people are in the right positions though it becomes alot simpler to make happen.

[–] Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf 4 points 1 day ago

No one needs Lemmy. For Signal, just install it on her phone and text her. That's all it takes.

[–] Ithral@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago

Getting grandma on signal isn't to hard, Lemmy might be harder

[–] kazerniel@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

network effect is strong