First all the bs with Twitter and Elon, then Reddit having an exodus to Lemmy (not complaining lol), then Twitch. Are we like, in an alternate self healing dimension or something?

  • Hemingways_Shotgun
    32·
    2 years ago

    COVID.

    COVID changed everything. In an attempt to recover quickly, companies ramped up their abuses to new levels. While billionaires defending them all had their masks removed as the world collectively realized that it’s impossible to make a billion without exploring others.

    Toss in back to the office mandates and rising costs while those same companies post record profits…all while the population is Uber sensitive to that kind of thing, and we’re in the middle of a not so quiet proletariat revolution.

    Thanks to COVID a lot of people realized that despite the elites best efforts, the enemy isn’t left or right, it’s us versus the super rich. And it’s having a trickle down effect.

    • inmatarian@beehaw.org
      21·
      2 years ago

      The infinite growth ended. COVID moved everyone online that it could. There’s no new people to move online, so there’s no future growth to promise, and they have to make money off of their existing userbase.

    • BOMBS@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 years ago

      I’d like to add that the WSB-GME event pulled reddit into everyone’s awareness, causing an influx of geberal FB and IG users to come pollute the site sith their influencing.