Fedibridge

My experience is: no one cares. They don't care about privacy, they don't care about having all of their personal information sold to advertisers and AI companies, they don't care about Discord's incessant popups and fake notifications and they don't care that the user experience gets gradually and perpetually worse.

Thats goes for all the Reddit users as well. They cared enough to stage a site-wide protest for checks notes 3 days, and they cared enough to say "fuck Spez" 50948209 times, but not enough to just leave the platform.

Every time I bring it up people laugh and tell me how weird and confusing it is and they say "but there's no activity there" without realizing that it's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

What Elon did is expose the fact that you can abuse and exploit your users all you want but the vast majority won't leave, no matter what. Other platforms have taken note.