Doesn’t matter if it’s predictable or not, you keep doing it as long as it’s effective.

This marks the day they lost me as a long-term customer. Perhaps ought to have happened earlier, but for me, it happened today. I encourage others to consider the same.

I mean I’ve never been an Apple customer. At least not since the OG iPods. But what company are you going to move to that wouldn’t do the exact same thing in that situation?

Apple is uniquely shitty in having endless contempt for their own customers, which is why I’ve always avoided them. But this just seems like kind of a weird “last straw”. But hey, anyone boycotting Apple has my support.

I believe your technical understanding is flawed

Its interesting that you assumed that my objections stemmed from technical problems. Why is that?

Its not, its from usability and trust and poor decisions.

The fact that they’re going to run out of money and the entire platform will just cease to exist is itself my primary objection, much the same as Signal and other centralized services.

The fact that it even costs so much to run is another.

And thirdly, their involvement in crypto shenanigans is an instant dealbreaker.

EFF should probably be the last one to leave. You wanna reach idiots on Xitter, being on Xitter is the most effective way to do that.

Given their description it sounds like it’s more of an issue of the algorithm and conservation of org resources. Their campaigning there is almost completely ineffective. They’ve been shoved down the list by the likes of Elon and the Rogan “manosphere”.

In order to find out, they’d have to also be using Meta, which is embarrassing enough in itself so they shouldn’t be talking.

Honestly there’s an abundance of private messengers, of which Session is definitely not at the top.

Yes, that was my entire point.

You can’t though. That was my entire point.

Well that’s exactly my point.

Honestly I would probably pay for it and be happy but Premium doesn’t solve many of the problems that still exist:

• being shown the same content over and over
• Dislikes hidden
• in-video ads
• Shorts absolutely crammed down your throat everywhere
• broken search results
• AI-generated slop absolutely everywhere
• crypto spam
• Google-connected account using view history to spy on you

etc. etc. All problems Google could solve easily but simply won’t.

Yeah, you don’t want starter packs, you want the threadiverse (obvi). These are individually curated by the community and irrelevant topics are downvoted and/or (hopefully) removed.

Surf just released the web-based version too.

I would love a decentralized p2p social network but no media is an instant dealbreaker.

PixelPlayer. Local music player.

Yes, it’s a full OS you just access remotely through your browser.

Agreed.

Hmm you make a compelling argument, I’m forced to reconsider my position.

But when we blame AI…we are just blaming a consumer of a product

We are blaming a “consumer” that is consuming the entire world’s supply of a product for no reason other than to destroy the planet and mislead investors in an effort to make themselves even richer.

Your own links are contradicting you.