• HighJudge@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Every platform/service/product that is owned by a single company is eventually going to breakdown and turn into the worst form of itself. Companies are driven by this fiscal quarter being better than the last and it is inevitable that eventually quality has to go out the window to increase profits. The only sure-fire way to “reset” quality or force the company to ensure quality is to not monetarily support them. But with the internet, that is very difficult to achieve with having so few platforms that connect us all owned by companies. The only answer on keeping the internet a quality space for socialization and connecting with each other, is decentralization.

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      1 year ago

      I agree. I don’t see any reason at this point that anyone who sees the issues with services going all profiteering/corporate mode would migrate to another privately controlled, closed-source, ultimately profit-minded site (like Squabbles, lol).