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Chris Ely

Serious question: Why would we want to support Meta?

Go find the Fediverse replacement for Instagram and tell us how to follow you there.

@gamingonlinux

31 Mar 2023 at 13:56 | Wall-to-wall | Open on fosstodon.org
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Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

@tcely @pixelfed to repeat the obvious: hardly anyone uses them, and it would be preaching to the choir on the types of people using it, this is basic marketing

31 Mar 2023 at 14:31 | Open on mastodon.social
Chris Ely

Especially, with a topic like Linux gaming, asking people to sign up for a Microsoft account and use Windows to read your content isn't stellar marketing, all on its own.

Receiving pushback for doing something similar doesn't surprise me at all.

@gamingonlinux

31 Mar 2023 at 14:37 | Open on fosstodon.org
Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮
Chris Ely

It's a shame that some people haven't learned the lessons of the past.

(Shout-out to @oatmeal for this insight that applies to Meta/Facebook/Instagram.)

@gamingonlinux

A comic that The Oatmeal posted to Facebook about how asking people to follow you on Facebook caused problems by giving them the power to decide what your followers can see. Facebook then offered to show that comic to more people, if they paid them to do that. The scrawled response was: LOL
31 Mar 2023 at 15:47 | Open on fosstodon.org
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