Unless they're too big to fail, and especially if they are too big to jail, e.g. Facebook, Google, etc. Or if they correctly judge the stupidity and malleability of their audience e.g. Reddit, X, etc.
If I may? I think there is room for hope, but it depends on where you place that hope. For instance, I don't believe that democracy will prevail in the USA for much longer - setting aside the Russian Roulette that we play every single time (more often than 4 years bc Congress), there is still that SCOTUS ruling that has already given the sitting President the power to legally assassinate their political rivals. The wheel keeps turning, and the ratchet keeps it always moving forwards towards the grand design of those who have power to implement such things.
But while there may be no more hope for that, what will come afterwards? People will still need things - so farmers will still farm, service members will still serve, scientists will still learn about the world, etc. Granted, much of that will be replaceable with automation, but e.g. the internet did not completely replace books, and this next transition too will be harsh but something will carry forward.
And since we do not know what or how etc., I adopt an attitude of "we don't know", rather than either pessimism or optimism. But since hope is mandatory for human existence, I also choose to have it (plus if I'm wrong, humanity will cease to exist, so who would be left to care anyway? it is definitely a win-win bet for me there:-P).
The odd part is how often that works. Like, I went to work Monday through Friday, therefore I should go to work on Saturday, right? That's... that's... that's... not how that works, or at least not how it is supposed to. And by extension, humanity has survived on earth for my entire lifetime and for many others besides, so s-s-surely this is not the end for our species? (based on what evidence though?)
Though at some point we see that the level of cognitive dissonance is far too high to be explainable purely by lack of intelligence - (almost) nobody is that dumb. And also there are literally people with PhDs and even MDs who were prescribing Ivermectin rather than the COVID vaccine, so it's not something that correlates perfectly with "intelligence" as in logical acuity, rather than emotional whatever (agility I think is the current term?).
The era of information is over, where people are considered "smart" if they know more things or can do more. Now we are entering a new era, seemingly characterized by not merely misinformation but active sources of disinformation. Now, survival of the fittest depends not only on individual emotional agility but also extensible to one's "tribe", as in when presented with two mutually exclusive set of facts, which one will someone choose to believe? (On the one hand we have 1+1=2, while on the other, we can hear words literally from someone's actual mouth, but the talking heads can manage to convince people that they did not see what they saw or hear what they heard and definitely what was meant was not meant - I'm saying that some people might legit be too dumb to live, sorry if that seems unkind, it distresses me too but if it is what it is, therefore..., =2 it is then).
For them, for now.
Except Cthulhu might be into that:-)
I dunno about can't, but most people seem stuck on the won't part.
Like every single member of your family being already dead, and it being your fault, and now you have the disease too and have decided retroactively that you would like the vaccine now, except that's not how that works and now you are going to die as well, leaving your kids behind as orphans.
Now see if you can guess which disease I even mean - hint, you probably think you know, but keep going and you can come up with more than a handful without too much effort, and with a bit more thinking even a handful of entirely distinct categories (edit: for the latter I mean leaving behind the literal definition of "vaccine").
We would do much better if we would fear more than we currently allow ourselves to, collectively as a society I mean.
Interesting. I did check that it was not merely my instance being different, bc even on Lemmy.world it still didn't work, though both of these from the webpage UI.
The link also does not work on Voyager for Android, which iirc is the most popular app.
So not working for these two approaches means that it's not a safe bet that it will work for most recipients, I believe.
On a related note, if you allow the webpage UI to finish the completion, then it will turn it into a link that will work, like !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world. But I don't know about all the variety of apps and how each one would handle it - Voyager for instance seems to do nothing at all with the exclamation point, at least while you are still composing the message.
So what happens when pleasing the investors becomes the only priority?
No it's not "just" a carryover - it's a valid link actually, if you put it into the link portion of a URL, even without the http part.
Also, your first exclamation link does not work. Probably bc it lacks the ending part so like !atheistmemes@lemmy.world.
This is all explained much better than my words here: Guide | How should I link to a community?
This will help: Guide | How should I link to a community?.
I assembled that link specifically for you on lemmy.world, but for anyone else on another instance who wants it, note that links to posts do not really work well since they take you off of your instance to go there, but you can either paste the link to the search bar to "translate" it into one that works on your instance, or in this case it's easier to just go to !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca and it's one of the posts near the top.
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In the sky... 🎵
Flying high... 🎶
One thing you can do there is to take advantage of federation and jump to an instance where you are not logged in, which will then display all of the comments. On the web UI, the multicolored Fediverse icon works fantastic for this purpose, as it will jump straight to the comment that you want to see (although the hidden ones would be below that, or perhaps you would rather go to the post itself).
e.g. for me, I am reading your comment at https://discuss.online/post/12642239/11643668, but the multicolored button would take me to https://sopuli.xyz/comment/12447782, which I do not have an account on hence nothing under that would be blocked for me there.