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The smart people don’t connect these “smart” devices to the network

That is an interesting hypothesis that I had not considered but can agree with - it will happen. Not sure if it is happening right now at the scale of ongoing layoffs. It probably is part of it, but another portion is just companies cutting costs to make up for their quarterly numbers to turn on a profit. For the past few years companies have been turning a profit and in order to keep the trend, since last year they’ve been cutting costs and corners where they can. Any strategy to cut costs at this point is game for them, and it is not only the investment in generative AI, but the hope they can make it do with machines and code what humans are doing. In my mind we are probably out a few years from that turning reality for most companies though.

The age component is absolutely a reason and so is the leverage of the community and friends like you said. No doubt about it. It’s herd mentality and FOMO. Finally it is also how easy to get in and stay sucked in. These other platforms have the dopamine trigger game figured out on their apps. Fediverse doesn’t have that so much, other than the organic “did someone reply to me?” feeling. If you don’t engage then fediverse is not pulling you in.

LinkedIn is a “need” for the ones wanting a job and trying to tell their new job /company is the best. Once these needs are satisfied they forget about it and only come back when the need arises again.

Different generations choosing different platforms I guess: >40 using facebook and <25 joined Snapchat.

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