• @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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    141 year ago

    That’s the rub, every social media service with any uptake is bad from a privacy perspective because the only real way to make them profitable is to sell ads.

    So, what are you looking to get out of it? RSS is still a thing, services like lemmy are decent at aggregating links (post the content you want, and hopefully others will help), and bookmarks work well if you just need a dozen or so sites.

    I honestly never use Twitter, Facebook, etc, and I feel like I’m about to keep tabs on things reasonably well.

    • @BURN@lemmy.world
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      21 year ago

      I’m looking for live updates from race teams during endurance events, gaming news from specific creators, local traffic notifications and real time updates from sports teams leading up to games.

      These things don’t typically have articles to link to, so aggregators don’t work well, and are often behind the curve. RSS has no adoption anymore and doesn’t quite work anyways.

      • @JamesStallion@sh.itjust.works
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        51 year ago

        None of those are essential serveices. There is no alternative, those are just not essential things. In order to get those non essential things we will all stay signed into for the neo nazi revenue and messaging machine.

        • @BURN@lemmy.world
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          21 year ago

          So basically “don’t use it, we can’t offer a replacement, but since it’s not food or water you can go fuck yourself and not have it”

          And people wonder why everyone doesn’t join open source projects.