That is the actual reason this happens. Another one is financial people trying to cut costs or something. Slack licensing is not a small cost if you have lots of people.
However it should be said that IT and finance are supposed to support the company, not the other way around. If they're choosing shit services they should be replaced with people who actually support the company.
Dog shit has plenty of good things going for it, frankly. It acts as a fertilizer and really its existence just means that your best bud's internal organs are functioning properly.
Teams however
If it keeps going for a year, then it'll truly be a large number (over 36 million to be precise). But if this was just a one-off protest kind of jumping the ship, then it's not going to mean much.
Was Europe about to regulate Elon Musk's platforms?
TikTok gathering data and selling it to whoever is a problem but it's not the problem.
The problem of TikTok and many other social media is that it drains our energy and motivation. It's like digital weed, creates the feeling that there's no reason to change things. We can just consume things.
Oh, there goes that neighborhood.
No, actually...
... but seriously, the Internet is so different from real life that no comparisons make sense. Opinions that would have been uttered by the craziest village idiots in a local gas station 30 years ago are now distributed and magnified by the social media machine. In the past, you could see with your eyes, hear with your ears and even smell with your nose which people you really really should not listen to, but in the internet, those people look exactly like you and me.
And it's all sapping your energy and time, the most precious resources you have.
That's why blocking is fine, even whole instances if they are shown to be crazy enough.
Also, I would like to point out that the creators of the clients for the first community platforms (usenet) recognized early on the importance of shutting people up (killfiles).
Save your sanity and do Settings -> Blocks -> Block instance -> lemmy.ml
Also perhaps block me if you strongly disagree with the above.
Warren Buffett maybe? At least I haven't heard him be much of an asshole.
Gabe Newell is a billionaire and as far as I know awesome.
It's because they did at least one complete rewrite, possibly two. But both of them needed to integrate with the rest of Microsoft, which practically forces them to be crap.