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I love it. This will help kill social media
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I don't think it will kill it, but it might just drive off the last semi-sane people. The terminally online ones will fork out the money while bitching and moaning about it.
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If only crazy people exist in it then it will die.
My evidence: every right wing social media site goes no where. Right wingers are crazy. Ergo crazy people websites die
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Counterpoint: Reddit
Trans lives matter
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COUNTERPOINT: TIKTOK
"boohoohoohoohoo BOOHOOOHOOHOOOO #depression"
STOP GOING TO ASIAN MARKETS LIKE ITS A ZOO YOU FRICKING COLONIZERS I WANNA BASH YOUR HEAD IN STOP FRICKING STOP STOP IT RIGHT NOW
"sniffs I--... I... inhales today yall... i got one spoon. ONE FRICKING SPOON THATS ALL I GOT"
we NEED to find our elders in the neurodiverse community. Having my son graduate college, made me-- hold up I'm tearing up... it made me think of some things as a neurodiverse adult
Stop judging me for what I wear! I don't do it for you hun. Oh, you're scared of my spiritual beleifs? Fricking good, I hex ppl baybee!
IMMA GIGACHAD ALPHA MALE AND TODAY I WANT TO SHARE THE GOSPEL OF ST. TATE
Today I am again filming all my children, a list of their diagnosees, ages, and names are in the description
can my fictive alters play with ur alters uwu >_<
🎶🎶🎶subtitle: CW: CSA, assault [female robot voice] when I was 14, my teacher molested me and now I have a substance abuse problem 🎶🎶🎶
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"Hello everybody! I have an AMAZZZiinnggg🎶 buisness opertunity for you. How would you like to be an entrepreneur, a business owner, and work on your own scedule? Well today, I'm here to tell you about my herbalife journey!"
"I saw a religion person today i think they almost tried to spread religion it was a close call"
I haven't slept or done my makeup in weeks my mom dragged me to the salon and they had to fix my hair but I got a cool dye out of it that's how they convinced me to go anyway today is the day I think I'm going to shift. I will transfer my consciousness out of this reality and into my desired reality. I have created a mp3 of draco malfoy ASMR to listen to while I sleep, tomorrow I hope to go to hogwarts, shift my consciousness back into this body, and report how it went.
I AM NO LONGER EMOTIONALY AVAILABLE FOR ABUSERS twerks to current bad b-word anthem
stops checking tiktok 4u page
The last tiktok hold outs I know are someone with severe mental illness, and someone's 50 year old mom, and people trying to promote pressure washing or roof repairs. Basically facebook 2.0, escaped assylum edition.
People just look up people they already like on youtube or instagram for shorts or reels because anyone big uploads to all 3 at once now, and once they do, the crazy people haven't hit those platforms yet so they get recommended similar stuff with less garbage. Like polymer clay gets you professional polymer clay videos and not someone sobbing and talking about their narcissist family while working with clay, lol
insane, NOTICEME, and annoying people got too good at algorithmaxxing and I suspect tiktok is gonna implode
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I've known more coherent downies.
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(((luckily))) tiktok is seemingly being overtaken by youtube shorts,
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Default subs are normie as frick
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Social media survives by the hordes of normies that keep it in the public eye for advertisers, while crazies and spergs provide the content (for free) that normies consume.
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Just filter out anyone dumb enough to donate money to the virtual Jew. This and paid blue check just made it a lot easier
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Anything to kill the Zuckerberg empire
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I don't think it will change anything. Most social media users are harmed in terms of psychological damage and time waste way more than 15 dollars a month's worth.
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No, it'll help kill anonymous social media as normies are already self doxing.
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Lmao making applecels pay more for it is an absolute king move.
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Probably because iOS takes a cut, so they have to up the amount to get the same cut. Which makes it even better imo, frick off apple and those who enable their BS
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It's funny because they're honest about it and applecels can still pay the lower rate online but a ton will pay the higher rate through iOS for no reason. Sometimes you get some sweet "better scam protection" cope which isn't even true because chargebacks exist.
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Only difference is apple refunds you right away while chargebacks may take a long time too process. you just click a button and you can reverse the purchase for anything on iTunes
trans lives matter
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Isn't announcing this publicly against apple store policy? Chad move tbh
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Literally paying to do the glowfigs job for them.
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Imagine tying all of your social media posts to your government ID and PAYING for it
And then imagine the implications of doing this under a government where speech is not protected, at least not in a meaningful way
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65% of Demoncrats want the government to censor Internet speech
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censoring speech is a defining trait of the wingcuck
Follower of Christ Tech lover, IT Admin, heckin pupper lover and occasionally troll. I hold back feelings or opinions, right or wrong because I dislike conflict.
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Snapshots:
archive.org
ghostarchive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
orange site:
archive.org
ghostarchive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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the current value of IG verification is that women will see your message requests when you slide into their DMs. if this is still the case then the $12/month is actually worth it
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Who the frick wants to be on meta?
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Instagram is still pretty popular
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All you get with this is the blue check too, not the other features Elon included
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Makes sense for companies, at least that’s what was talked about in the Blind thread.
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