Having just moved to a new community three weeks ago, I’ve started exploring more of the local economy and businesses.
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Having just moved to a new community three weeks ago, I’ve started exploring more of the local economy and businesses.
And it deeply disturbs me that so many of the businesses and institutions in my new home area don’t have their own websites, but instead only exist on FB and IG.
I mean, it’s clearly a thing.
And I have to admit, it’s a real turnoff to me. I’m less likely to patronize those businesses. It doesn’t instill in me much faith in the competence of their endeavors. I’m becoming much much less empathetic to people’s entrenchment on those platforms, considering there have been multiple exit opportunities over the years. At this point the only thing keeping them there is the imagined loss of “reach” which honestly doesn’t exist at this point… It just feels willfully, desperately blind to me.
I’m actively going out of my way to avoid those businesses and endeavors now. If the link I’m given goes to those platforms, I’m out. If I can’t engage with you without having to use Meta as a mediary, I’m not engaging.
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Having just moved to a new community three weeks ago, I’ve started exploring more of the local economy and businesses.
And it deeply disturbs me that so many of the businesses and institutions in my new home area don’t have their own websites, but instead only exist on FB and IG.
I mean, it’s clearly a thing.
And I have to admit, it’s a real turnoff to me. I’m less likely to patronize those businesses. It doesn’t instill in me much faith in the competence of their endeavors. I’m becoming much much less empathetic to people’s entrenchment on those platforms, considering there have been multiple exit opportunities over the years. At this point the only thing keeping them there is the imagined loss of “reach” which honestly doesn’t exist at this point… It just feels willfully, desperately blind to me.
I’m actively going out of my way to avoid those businesses and endeavors now. If the link I’m given goes to those platforms, I’m out. If I can’t engage with you without having to use Meta as a mediary, I’m not engaging.
@Coreyartus I'm surprised that one, enterprising person hasn't started a new business in getting these businesses off meta properties and onto their own site.
What I believe in that these businesses are extremely budget conscious as FB is "free" and it's easy. In the industry I'm in I was surprised in someone from an external firm was using a gmail account for business purposes.
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Having just moved to a new community three weeks ago, I’ve started exploring more of the local economy and businesses.
And it deeply disturbs me that so many of the businesses and institutions in my new home area don’t have their own websites, but instead only exist on FB and IG.
I mean, it’s clearly a thing.
And I have to admit, it’s a real turnoff to me. I’m less likely to patronize those businesses. It doesn’t instill in me much faith in the competence of their endeavors. I’m becoming much much less empathetic to people’s entrenchment on those platforms, considering there have been multiple exit opportunities over the years. At this point the only thing keeping them there is the imagined loss of “reach” which honestly doesn’t exist at this point… It just feels willfully, desperately blind to me.
I’m actively going out of my way to avoid those businesses and endeavors now. If the link I’m given goes to those platforms, I’m out. If I can’t engage with you without having to use Meta as a mediary, I’m not engaging.
@Coreyartus @ina Completely agree. You can have a micro blog for a little more than $5 a month, updating it frequently. IF I saw any business doing anything like that (without FB, X or some other social media farm) they would have my loyalty and dollars.
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@Coreyartus I'm surprised that one, enterprising person hasn't started a new business in getting these businesses off meta properties and onto their own site.
What I believe in that these businesses are extremely budget conscious as FB is "free" and it's easy. In the industry I'm in I was surprised in someone from an external firm was using a gmail account for business purposes.
@joshb I completely agree, and that concerns me even more. If they have to rely upon “free” to meet budget, then I don’t want to imagine how else they’re cutting corners. Especially food services… Oy. So many here don’t exist beyond Meta’s ecosphere. I mean, not even a free website where you can at least list a menu on a single page… I’m not visiting those establishments. No.
I’m also discovering that many are owned by either older folks who don’t know “how to internet” or younger folks who grew up in a paradigm where FB and IG seemed to be all there was.
But in *your* industry, to not have a dedicated email with a domain website addresss… Oh dear. That’s extra concerning.
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@Coreyartus @ina Completely agree. You can have a micro blog for a little more than $5 a month, updating it frequently. IF I saw any business doing anything like that (without FB, X or some other social media farm) they would have my loyalty and dollars.
@tinfoiling @ina At this point, if they have any other link—ANY other link—to a platform that isn’t Meta or X I’m flat out ecstatic.
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Having just moved to a new community three weeks ago, I’ve started exploring more of the local economy and businesses.
And it deeply disturbs me that so many of the businesses and institutions in my new home area don’t have their own websites, but instead only exist on FB and IG.
I mean, it’s clearly a thing.
And I have to admit, it’s a real turnoff to me. I’m less likely to patronize those businesses. It doesn’t instill in me much faith in the competence of their endeavors. I’m becoming much much less empathetic to people’s entrenchment on those platforms, considering there have been multiple exit opportunities over the years. At this point the only thing keeping them there is the imagined loss of “reach” which honestly doesn’t exist at this point… It just feels willfully, desperately blind to me.
I’m actively going out of my way to avoid those businesses and endeavors now. If the link I’m given goes to those platforms, I’m out. If I can’t engage with you without having to use Meta as a mediary, I’m not engaging.
Yeah like
(be me)
(walk into local game shop)
"Do you have a bulletin board for roleplaying groups?"
"Oh we do all that on Discord now. Hold out your phone."
...
(be me)
(walk into a slightly less local game shop)
"Hello I'm here for the open RPG night?"
"Yes it's open for anyone to join if you sign up on our Discord first."
...
"Sorry you'll have to leave we're about to start our open RPG night."
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Yeah like
(be me)
(walk into local game shop)
"Do you have a bulletin board for roleplaying groups?"
"Oh we do all that on Discord now. Hold out your phone."
...
(be me)
(walk into a slightly less local game shop)
"Hello I'm here for the open RPG night?"
"Yes it's open for anyone to join if you sign up on our Discord first."
...
"Sorry you'll have to leave we're about to start our open RPG night."@cy Yeah, I don’t get it. Is it open or not? Otherwise it’s a private club. Using the joining of a platform as a gatekeeper seems entirely contradictory.
Make a post on your website. Collect emails and send out notifications. It’s not that hard.
Our deference to walled communities only serves the owners of the platform that community is on…
I may join a platform, but I’m never ever ever going to limit my capacity to communicate or reach others to that single platform. That’s nuts.
And it boils down to “convenience”, but not the actual user community members. They have to go out of their way to get information that’s essentially kept behind a paywall—usually by paying the price of submitting to surveillance ad tracking and selling of personal demographic targeting information.
No open game night is worth jumping through those hoops.
