this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2024
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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No. I wouldn't. I never signed up for either.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

I did for Insta to share/catalogue climbing stuff, but it wasn't very good. I have been on there kind of recently, but the ads make it unusable and no one seems to use it anymore, so I'm just fed "climbing content".

I would need some sort of psychological addiction to use it. Temu is a more pleasurable experience and that app makes me depressed.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You could pay me to not use them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

I would have so much money. I pretty much only use Lemmy and I'm on here way too much

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Short form content annoys the shit out of me, and Facebook was turned to shit long before instagram was a thing. But I'll gladly say "Yeah, Im addicted please pay me to quit" if the money is right.

-edit- On second glance, the article is actually talking about us paying to avoid those services ... like... a fee to NOT have them. That's pretty fucked up, and whomever thought of the idea of paying for non-service needs to be slapped upside the head with their grandma's sandal.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's just for the experimental setup to figure out just how much people hate these services despite using them 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

so you pay the drug dealer to not supply you with drugs? Sounds like extortion.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

It isn’t just paying to not use them. It’s about paying for nobody else to use them. The issue people interviewed point out is FOMO.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

i quit facebook and instagram the other week; i should have waited so i could get paid. lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

if they could beat their fear of missing out.

Missing out on what?? Have you been to TikTok? It's the land of single-digit IQ. And Instagram is not much better.

[–] Mwa 1 points 3 months ago

tiktok is such a hellhole