>>108881760
I don't know if you've heard, but there's this new thing called LLMs and those are the "users" that the megacorporations are gaining lol.

>>108881760
When the big companies started out, they had much nicer terms. Both Reddit and Facebook used to actually allow free speech and be fun. They did this as an act to get users. The hard part of building something like these sites isn't building them, it is getting a big userbase. Once they established this, they clamped down and created a no fun allowed zone. People tend to go where people are, so they join the more popular platforms, even though over time they've basically degraded into shit.

>>108881760
Because small forums/social media makes even shittier products and only gets a pass because of underdog status.
Doesn't help that none of them have a viable monetization models(either paid or free, both of which are dead on arrival in most cases) and those companies like Brave or Bitlocker that tries to make their products free and monetisable gets hoardes and hoardes of seething and crying from ungrateful losers.

>>108881760
>small forums
- mind share
- discoverability
- people go where their friends are (okay, more relevant to communications apps like signal/whatapps/etc, I don't think this one applied to forums and such)
- no phone app designed to keep to on their platform 24/7
- having to create yet another account and password combo insteading of using one of the big accounts that already allows you to post in a large number of places

>>108881760
A new sucker is born everyday

>>108881760
Network effects.

>>108881760
First come the juice
Then they herd in the normies
So here come the normies
Then the normies spin up a normieverse for the normies that orbit them.
Orbiting normies attack anyone that doesn't subscribe to the normieverse