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.

  • solaranus
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    1 year ago

    deleted by creator

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Imagine we get bought by Lowtax and suddenly you had to pay for an account lmao.

  • Infamousblt [any]
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    2 years ago

    Posting PPB gets you an instant ban for hate speech.

  • neeps [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    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 monkies comrades proves how little the big social medias are actually trying to provide a nice experience.

    Love you hexdevs you make this whole thing happen

    • GaveUp [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      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.

      • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        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.

        • SerLava [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          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

    • Henle [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      People are saying we have the best devs

  • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Create c/vaush, c/contrapoints, c/infrared and c/adamsomething to appeal to a wider leftist audience

    • HornyOnMain
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      2 years ago

      ok but promoting hexbear as a reddit lifeboat to contrapoints fans would be incredibly funny

  • Flinch [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Hexbear Red™ required to post custom emojis

  • DoubleShot [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Paid avatars would be great, then way fewer people would use them (I don’t like them I think it’s just clutter).

  • robinn2
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    1 year ago

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  • Mindfury [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    active sort has no time limit in its algo, all other post sort modes disabled

    the same thread, forever