Awful to see our personal privacy and social lives being ransomed like this. €10 seems like a price gouge for a social media site, and I’m even seeing a price tag of 150SEK (~€15) In Sweden.

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    1 year ago

    Is it a good news for alternative social media ?

    I mean now that people have to pay to use facebook, wouldn’t they move to the fedi ?

    Also do we want the racist uncle and the boomer memes on the fedi ?

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      1 year ago

      You can still choose to use the “free” version where you have to accept all the cookies, trackers and I don’t know what else.

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        1 year ago

        True, that part never changed. I’m not using any Facebook social networks, so it doesn’t affect me. But adding more options doesn’t seem like a bad thing to me, even though the price seems pretty steep.

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          1 year ago

          Shit thing for me, I use it to reach guests and make announcements for the restaurant. Sucks but that’s where most people still get local information.

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            1 year ago

            But you/they can still use the free, ad-supported tier like before. I don’t see any change to people who don’t pay.

            It just added the option to get rid of ads and trackers in exchange for money.

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      1 year ago

      People don’t have to pay though. The general idea that I hear from most is, that by accepting, things will be as they habe always been. They don’t realise or seem to care thatbit has always been illegal