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Damn i hate that word so much. What are they supposed to influence? They are advertiser, period. Influencer should be reserve for someone who actually contribute to the society, not some clown on tiktok/insta doing memes and jokes.
They are called “influencers” because the ghouls that work in marketing realised that they are an extremely effective tool for their ongoing psychological warfare arms race
They influence a horde of followers to buy shit or click ads. They’re a middle-man for parasites.
It’s so strange to hear people calling themselves an influencer, like they’re bragging about their ability to psychologically manipulate people (whether to sell the shit they’re being paid to pretend to like, or just for good old power tripping)
That’s why i hate that word so much. “I am/want to be an influencer” is such a weird phrase but it’s an acceptable phrase for a lot of them. What do you trying to influence people with? Science? Math? Arts? Creativity? But no, it’s purchasing choice.
Many people who influenced me in my ways would punch the one who’d call them an influencer.
I’d say you have that backwards
Influencer is the word companies use for people with a following, and therefore power over peoples buying decisions.
For some reason it’s leaked and been misappropriated.
If you actually make something of value you are whatever that thing is, AND a potential influencer of buying decisions.
What I really hate is when actual content creators get lumped in with that name.
My impression of the main microblogging sites has been:
Twitter: musk fanboys, celebrities and people who can’t/won’t switch
Threads: conservatives, alt-right, grifters and celebrities
Truth social: conspiracy nuts, maggots, alt-right
Mastodon/kbin: nerds, left-wingers and furries
Bluesky: furries, left-wingers and people who liked pre-musk Twitter
You heard it here first, Lemmy is where the normies hang out.
Lemmy: Linux fan boys who will hear no wrong. Also the gays
And furries.
And crabs.
🦀🦀
🦀🦀$$11 a month🦀🦀
And my axe!
& Knuckles
Do you have a minute to talk about Linux? :)
Lemmy is 1000% not for normies. Not yet, anyway.
I’m not 100% sure what a normie even is, and I suspect there’s a decent chance that makes me a normie.
And if yes… we’re heeeeeeeeerrrrre.
Lemmy isn’t really microblogging though.
And tankies…
Mastodon/kbin: nerds, left-wingers and furries
Being a Mastodon user does not make me a nerd, left-winger furry.
I mean,
I am a left-winger furry nerd,
But not because I’m on Mastodon!
something something correlation/causation
I feel like at least 70% of the tweets I get on Bluesky’s Discover page are from trans people.
I’m not complaining, it’s just interesting.
I wonder if it’s an algorithm thing (I follow some trans users) or if Bluesky is simply where they all fled to after the Muskening.i just wanna tell them, why not fediverse?
Twitter has an annoyingly persistent hold out crew of lefties and furries as well. Which is a shame, because its cutting into the Bluesky/Mastodon content.
where’s parler and tumblr and pillowfort
kbin: centrists
mbin: centrists who like updates
Lemmy: Tankies and radicalised idiots
Just got in to bluesky today. Seeing furries is gross, but other than that it seems pretty nice so far?
As a furry, I think you’re gross too.
Completely agree. Use the nuclear option immediately to defend the fediverse from the sociopathic transnational corporation Meta.
Don’t say that around here. You’ll get a thousand sycophants down your throat bleating “It’S ThE uSeR’s ChOiCe!!!” and that you’re “against free speech” and “just as bad as Meta” if you want us to disconnect from them.
I’m with you, though. Meta is evil and we should not be doing business with them in any way. Any user who wants to make the “choice” to do business with Meta can do it using one of Meta’s many own products instead.
if is user’s choice they can move
I think social media was invented to cause revolutions
Idk, man. If you look at countries currently experiencing lots of public uprisings and revolutionary organizing, they seem to be the ones with some of the least prolific digital media. Myanmar, northern India, and rural Bolivia all have terrible wifi.
Folks in “modern” nations like South Korea and Dubai and the UK are increasingly these NEET hermits with no friends or romantic partners or sense of collective good will who just fixate on online phantasm celebrities. Occasionally, one of them pops off and tries to murder a politician. But that’s not revolutionary conduct.
Seems like it’s easier to divide people who arr using social media.
If they don’t have social media, they might go make friends, and those friends might have the same problems, and might seek to solve them…
Won’t it be more fun to downvote anything posted or connected by a user @threads?
Great idea, let’s start a fight against 1 billion monthly users with our 50k.
I don’t think they have downvotes for that matter.
Oh the humanity!
spare the Wayland
What country do they mean?
Honestly, micro blogs shouldn’t really exist, neither instagram or Facebook, or tiktok… Just turn-off the internet please
White country, is it?
I don’t think so. Sounds more like a Persian Gulf country.
Its funny that people here think they’re that much different than a threads user. They probably all use Instagram or Facebook.
You should do a poll on that, the answer may surprise you.
Lemmy users are more akin to reddit\forums\image boards users.
It’s not really better, it’s just significantly different.
Been here as long as you have been and one thing i can be certain is, if one of those influencer is here they will be drown in spit. And downvote. Mostly downvote.
