You can still use the website. This is just talking about the native apps.
dan
joined 2 years ago
Definitely going to fill this out once I get some free time. What will the data be used for?
A lot of people either don't want to pay, or can't pay (eg people in developing nations with very low income). I agree that UBI would help, but we're a long way off from that being a standard thing in one country, let alone worldwide.
Not sure about this community, but many Lemmy communities have a rule that if you post a link to a news article or video, you need to keep the post title the same as the source.
The only real alternatives to ads are either paying for the content, or having someone else pay for you. The latter is the case with something like PeerTube - someone else is covering the cost of the server and bandwidth without asking you for payment, and the creator doesn't get money from you just watching the video.
Had what in videos?
Buying albums is great because you can host them on your own Plex server and use Plexamp.
(or something like Jellyfin, but IMO Plexamp is still the best app available for streaming your own music collection)
It's probably the most popular music streaming service at the moment.
You could say the same about any social media site really.
The whole point of social media is to communicate with other people. Facebook is the largest one, so if you want to contact a business or person, they're more likely to be on Facebook than any other site. Probably the main exception are younger people (and companies run by them), where they're more active on TikTok and Instagram.
Even for companies that have sites, they often get more people contacting them through social media instead of their site. Social media sites tend to have better SEO.
That's especially the case for younger people as they search Instagram and TikTok more than Google. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2024/03/11/genz-dumping-google-for-tiktok-instagram-as-social-search-wins/ ).
I'm just using regular Firefox at the moment. I briefly tried Floorp but it felt a bit slow.
Well, except at work where we're forced to use Chrome for security reasons. They rely on Chrome Enterprise as part of their endpoint security solution, which has features like preventing copying from sensitive/confidential work webapps then pasting onto non-work sites, and other features that big companies use.
WhatsApp and Messenger are the #1 and #3 most used messaging apps in the world. (#2 is WeChat)
In Australia where I'm from, Messenger is the most popular by far.