most of the people buying these are buying a costume, not a work vehicle, if my neighbors are any indication

it’s a status symbol

Yikes. Can you imagine a more soul-crushing job than making marketing posters for the most boring soup possible?

I imagine it goes something like this:

Jim, we’ve got some ad space. Malls across the world. You’re going to use that as a canvas to sell tomato soup. People love tomato soup. Sells itself, by itself. Don’t show a grilled cheese near it - we don’t sell those and lets face it, tomato soup is not the arm candy in that pairing. Oh, and have fun with it! We’re a family. Please have it done by Sunday.

sh.itjust.works

on paper i’d be on this instance but the name is quite terrible and gives me little confidence in the administration

i getcha, but it was people who did that. it’s kind of hard to shut us up, we’ll answer more questions wherever we are

most knowledge has a shelf life anyway

right! it’s the people, not the product

i think someone forgot that

A relaxed, yet worried look. cute cat! I don’t know your cat, but I imagine in the next instant they could be bolting across somewhere else

the Reddit users moving over are the ones that care about social media and are willing to invest time learning new platforms. i think it’s the masses we have to worry about, and I don’t think they’ll move over until they are forced to

Most people are apathetic to this sort of thing; they just want whatever content they are already getting. They’ll use the official app or the web app as long as possible. Onboarding onto federated alternatives is also complicated for normies.

Doesn’t change my own reasons for leaving though 🤷‍♀️

it’ll probably plateau; saw similar during Twitter/Mastodon migration waves