• Zombie-Mantis@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    It’s hard to leave because it’s easy to join, and because it has the critical mass of users. Simple as that. It takes a lot to get people to abandon their chats, their friends, their groups, and the years of built-up message history, for an app that likely has fewer users and fewer features.

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      19 hours ago

      I don’t want more apps, I want to return to monke early 2000s web forums.

      • Glitchvid@lemmy.world
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        13 hours ago

        Granted they’re not the growing and bustling places they used to be, but there are still both niche and “lifestyle” forums that are alive and stable. Other than this place, one of the latter is where I spend most of my online socializing time.