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Instagram Plus Is a New Low | Drive yourself crazy for the low price of $3.99 a month (www.theatlantic.com)
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[-] DeckPacker@piefed.social 28 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

What I found much more interesting than the new subscription, was all their weird obsessive behaviours the author described, which seem to almost normalized in her mind.

Like memorizing all the followers of your ex and checking regularly if they have new ones, to see if they have a new relationship. Or checking, if your exes look at your stories.

I am very glad, I am not involved with social media (and most of my friends as well), because it seems to exadurate your worst impulses in a way, that I would have never thought could be normalized in our society.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 42 points 2 days ago

Times must be tough at Meta.

[-] lavacake1111@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago

Zuck needs a new yacht.

[-] Icedrous@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 days ago

Zuck saw Gabe’s new mansion and got jealous

[-] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

He needs the money to sue more hawaiins to steal their land I'm sure.

[-] Flower@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago

And had no more ideas to steal and badly implement

[-] sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago

People have been paying for Instagram?

[-] trashographer@discuss.online 1 points 1 day ago

Once I paid $1 for Whatsapp yearly subscription

[-] Franconian_Nomad@feddit.org 18 points 2 days ago

Mark Zuckerberg: „Why put in all those effort with burner accounts when you just can pay to stalk someone!“

[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 days ago

I hope more people come to make more interesting original content on Loops. Now, it's a lot of political stuff. I want to see more art and comedic content.

[-] GutterRat42@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

Waiting on loops to be officially on Android instead of having to install the APK.

[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 1 points 20 hours ago

Good news, it's been out on Android since maybe 2 weeks ago!

[-] GutterRat42@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Best news I have gotten this week

[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago

Kind of sad but that's really the challange of getting the fediverse going. Problem is creative creators just want to get their stuff out to as many people as possible. It's the same stupid catch 22 problem that we had with windows and gaming and software before proton (IE it's hard to build up consumer/user bases without the creators, and hard to convince creators to upload for a smaller userbase).

[-] ftbd@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

Problem is creative creators just want to get their stuff out to as many people as possible.

If that was the primary goal, why not post on all platforms?

[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 1 points 20 hours ago

I don't really know how mainstream platforms work, but maybe there's no point in using the time and energy to crosspost on Loops if there's no monetary incentive. I started making shorts on Loops because I just wanna practice making videos and share what little knowledge I have with the world, but if you do it to make a living, you can't waste limited resources, I guess.

[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm sure some it's just limited time etc... i do agree with the gist of it though, wouldn't be the worse idea for creators to just crosspost everything they upload to tiktok or youtube shorts to loops as well, but I guess it's more just out of their field of view to begin with anyway. Problem I suppose is, a second part of the linux/windows problem we ran into.

not only are there less users on linux, but the overwhelming majority of them, at the bare minimum have a windows machine or a dual boot system to run software they really need or want to run windows things if they need to. Likewise even people dabbling in loops, still view youtube shorts and tiktok. Meaning they don't even count as additional users.

[-] BloodMuffin@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

idiot tax

[-] BozzyBuzzard@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

Morphin time!

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