#they need to be doing more for a subscription website yknow

[bruceawaynefrfr]

btw guys smosh post around 34 videos a month over the 4 channels and mythical post 46 videos a month on 3 channels

[tuwann]

social media is pushing their luck lately on all fronts. even when you understand their mindset these changes are risky - mainly operating under "social media is like a slot machine" kind of mindset, since thats effectively the same thing.

my point is: the best thing they can do is make it as easy as possible to use the website and develop addictions, any friction hurts this and this is why selling data is their strongest practice, *its invisible to the user*. ads, like promoted posts and such, are less intrusive. theyre just another post. ads, like how youtube does it, are very intrusive and frictional. ads still need to exist for data collection to be worth anything to the corporations, but from a social media companies perspective data collection weighs more on the scale.

but recently, theres been a few interesting developments. its not like ive been to shareholder meetings and can predict exactly what the baby eating ceos are thinking, but - i think they believe the addiction the average person has is so powerful over them that they can get away with putting more friction (or theyre just fucking stupid). the examples im talking about right now are twitters "$1 subscription" and youtube waging war on adblockers. twitters seems like just a fucking stupid descision but youtubes seems more calculated, but its still some big friction.

seriously the twitter thing is unbelieveably stupid friction if youve ever been like... on the internet without access to a credit card you know the difference between free and not free VERY well. the subscription idea will probably get dropped but if it somehow does go through like. every kid will not use it for certian, anyone who... yknow... evaluates the worth of the thing theyre buying even SLIGHTLY will quit, like... the only people that will remain are the blue checks who are not beating the nonsentient allegations. anyway.

i dont know how "normal people" use social media. i surround myself with people who are quite aware about the mass gangstalking of users and are generally above average in tech-proficiency. i dont know the social media habits of jimmy age 25. maybe jimmy will just deal with the friction, but the people i know are fairly averse to the friction and are just... using the sites less because of it. there doesnt really seem to be a stopping point in adding this friction until the site owners get burned somehow (unless youre twitter lol theyre gonna keep doing shit until the servers cant afford to be paid they have NO brakes). i guess we just have to see how much it takes for the lowest common denominator to get too annoyed with social media before sites stop their nonsense

uh, anyway, im gonna take a break from youtube until theres a way to use an adblock on it. a week? a month? never? well, thats fine. i quit reddit basically for good after the API change i can drop a site again if i need to

[errorryx]

hi, i sent you that ask bc i (a person who does not work for allchemy in any way) greatly enjoys allchemy, and i think that its a shame it doesn’t have that many users! i think that ppl who have tried infinite craft and enjoyed it would rly enjoy allchemy as well - the site itself is not a for profit thing, the developers need the ad revenue and subscription to keep it running, bc yknow, stuff like websites and ai cost money! weird ass response to me recommending you a game i thought you might like but ok slay . Some people just want to share good things

alright, cool, but when i see a word-for-word identical ask on someone else's account when i look up the game on this website, it makes me raise my eyebrow a little. i'm glad you like the game. like i said, i don't think it's malicious. it just came off a little sus in my opinion to be going around doing free advertising for an online game that stands to profit off of it. you can do whatever you want, far be it from me to say you should stop, but that was my honest reaction to a random anon and i see no reason to walk it back. i'm not gonna stress about something this silly so genuinely, have a good day/night. i won't post any more about it unless i get more asks.