Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Wow clickbait title…
It was Google, Reddit and Meta that complied
Yeah. Discord knows, Thiel and Palantir is their daddy (apparently).
We need to bust these companies the fuck up.
Fediverse. More needed than ever. Digg may be ok…
Digg may be ok…
No.
All of these services are okay at the beginning. That’s how it always starts, then in a few years there’s an optional subscription and then there are now tiers to the subscription and now you have to use their app and give it every permission on your phone, etcetc.
Stop going to these centralized services. The centralization of ownership is the problem, not any specific website or owner.
Yeah but is the value in the service or the userbase and the data though?
When instances are going down that is at risk and the current federated model isn’t helping that much. Look at lemmynsfw and the other community that went down no so long ago.
Data portability and user migration isn’t so much more evident here quite yet.
Better sure but not perfect.
Oh yeah, the federated social media software isn’t perfect, I agree.
However, by leaving these giant advertising companies and data silos who side-hustle as a ad-ridden social media sites, we blunt that power which is being used to pour propaganda and misinformation into democratic systems around the world at the whim of a few individuals.
I’ll take some lost data, deleted instances and migration difficulties in exchange.
Stop going to these centralized services. The centralization of ownership is the problem, not any specific website or owner.
True, we need the Fediverse, but the Fediverse is only a little harder to knock down, not impossible.
Expecially in the US where fighting in court could simply (and often) bankrupt you. All it is needed to take down and instance is asking the provider the owner of the IP and then sue him for something. A company could fight, a private owner no.
Eh…Digg is like the little brother that wants to be cool, but just ends up burning down his own house.
Now, you may be thinking,
“But Lost_My_Mind! You burned down your own house when you were 5 years old! And you’re the little brother of the family!”
And that’s all true. But you see, the difference is…I was never trying to be cool.
And that’s what makes you cool, it’s effortless cool.
Learning that paper borders are not borders and that second amendment you had was important, yes?
By the way, Americans in the interwebs like talking as if that second amendment were an outlier in the world.
Actually such concepts existed even in imperial China.
Even in USSR the founding myth postulated that it’s a revolutionary state and a revolution against reaction is a right and even a duty.
Except it works when everyone believes in it. When people start believing in paper borders and stop believing in power, they lose power.
I’m talking, of course, about weapons in wider sense. Scopolamine is a weapon. Even alcohol is a weapon. Knowledge is a weapon. Ability to process knowledge is a weapon. Predictive power is a weapon - what those big companies are investing into. Conditioning since kindergartens and schools is too a weapon.
The point is that everything in a society should be accessible and democratized and non-monopolized, because everything of value is a weapon, and things without value don’t survive evolution.
(Of course, evolution will work either way ; but that doesn’t support any strategy, because any choice at all will advance the bloodline, the population, the biome.)
A volunteer should be able to participate in everything, ideally.
There are some people who like hierarchies and “natural” violent relations, can’t decide if closer to Exupery’s Citadelle or to fascism. Sometimes very intelligent, but misguided. Those people would probably say I’m misguided and nature specializes.
Nature does everything. Nature specializes in small populations with limited connectivity, nature spreads and smoothes out differences in big populations, creates symbioses and different biomes. Nature does what’s best where it’s best and is perpetually being optimized for just that. Which is my point that they argue.
Lol America and their ‘freedom’
