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    • dantheclamman@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      I think people are intimidated by step 3. Don’t ask me why, but for a certain type of web user, it’s an absolute deal breaker for some reason.

      • hazelnot@slrpnk.net
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        1 year ago

        Tbh it’s capitalism. It teaches people to be afraid of choices, and to just take what the corporation is handing them. It’s… disconcerting how pervasive this kind of convenience culture has become and what kind of effect it’s having on people’s lives

        Fedi doesn’t have an onboarding problem, people have a capitalism problem

        • dantheclamman@lemmy.world
          3·
          1 year ago

          that is an interesting point. when people are confronted with the choice of where to store their data, they just nope out