Picturing a nightmare scenario where somehow hexbear gets bought out by capitalists and looks to cash in on some of that sweet enshittification.
De-federating from lemmy would be a start. Strip the site of all the features we gained. Ads would be a must. Paid avatars is another goodie.
Trump Anguish
this is the closest I can get you, with our current architecture. They're saying that next month things will be more plentiful. 🎺
Dude i've got 20 fking spare copies of ppb from the last 100 pulls
Imagine we get bought by Lowtax and suddenly you had to pay for an account lmao.
Move up to HexPlus to unlock your second set of pronouns and add 5 more slots to your inbox, along with 500 pigpooppoints to post with!
c/furry would be immediately axed and anyone who ever posted or commented in it would be banned
New mod team chosen exclusively from major reddit political subs.
The fact that we can have a social media this nice and which runs this smoothly with what, $30? a month in monetary support and a few devoted
code monkiescomrades proves how little the big social medias are actually trying to provide a nice experience.Love you hexdevs you make this whole thing happen
I think most employees at social media companies are there just to turn a profit and has nothing to do with the actual product. WhatsApp had 55 employees and scaled to 1 billion users. Instagram had 13 employees when it was acquired for 1 billion dollars
Then every single marketing employee is just for profit, every single salesperson, every single person coding software for the ad delivery network, coding the ad targeting, coding the ad platform infrastructure, all the UX and designers deciding where and how to put the ads, all the management people to coordinate all this stuff, data scientists to maximize user metrics, etc. etc.
This is it. The meat of tech companies' employee bases is always extraneous shit that exists to try and turn a profit; the core functionality of every company I've ever worked for or heard of is almost always <100 engineers.
Yeah, like the core functionality of Twitter or Reddit isn't really any more complicated than Hexbear, it's all scale and ads and security and UX and data mining and ads and ads and ads and ads
Create c/vaush, c/contrapoints, c/infrared and c/adamsomething to appeal to a wider leftist audience
ok but promoting hexbear as a reddit lifeboat to contrapoints fans would be incredibly funny
Terminal last rebuttal brain to pin your epic clapback to a thead.
We are defederated from lemmy already. They could introduce the bluesky racism slider.
Each community defederated. You want to see/post on another community? Make an account there.
Paid avatars would be great, then way fewer people would use them (I don’t like them I think it’s just clutter).
Emojis and inline images become discord nitro style bullshit
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