• Cethin@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    The new one usually won’t have the same issues at first, but they’ll have the same opportunities and motivations that lead to the issues. People will see a different provider and say they’re not doing the bad things, and they’ll be correct for a few years maybe, but then it becomes a struggle to get them to switch to the next thing. This whole problem would mostly be solved with open-source alternatives instead.

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      15 hours ago

      The thing with age verification is that it’s a legal requirement, so they’re all going to have to do it.

      Running an online service with a lot of users is very expensive, too. All these proprietary services eventually realise that they need revenue in order to continue operating. That’s one of the reasons why decentralized, federated services are the way to go - everyone runs their own small community, so there’s no one company or person that has to cover an enormous bill.