“If your friend told you to jump off a bridge, would you?”

-Any decent parent

CP is illegal and it’s borderline (is what I’m guessing, I haven’t gone)

Yes. It’s very tiring having to constantly fight this battle. Unfortunately that’s what they want cause if enough of us are too tired to care then eventually it slips through and we never get back what we lost.

People are lazy

Sorry if it came off like that.

But if Facebook came up and bought my messaging service I would be looking for an alternative as soon as I could instead of just going “oh I used this before and don’t want to change”. Obviously if WhatsApp is your only option then use it but keep it as minimal as possible. Or just don’t give a fuck like 90% of people 🤷‍♂️

People are stupid and don’t care. I doubt many people here on lemmy are using them but there is always gonna be some using those mentioned, Instagram, or any of facebooks ‘services’.

The companies make the rules since bribery is legal (see lobbying). They set whatever price they want, then use the money to buy the politicians that continue to create stronger pro-corporation laws continuing the lack of choice and change.