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• rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  it’s fine if you want to have it as a hobby. It’s not fine if you want to destroy Big Tech.

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  • Bezier@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Well, I guess it’s priorities. Destroying Big Tech would be pretty nice, but I’m really just here for the community.

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    • rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Not to single you out, but this attitude is unbelievably frustrating. Everyone here loves to waste hours of their day signaling their virtue and complaining about all the evils done by the corporations, but so few are actually willing to put any skin in the game. they complain about entshittication from Spotify and Netflix, but religiously continue paying their subscriptions while refusing to support smaller, independent businesses.

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      • Bezier@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Well, at this point I would like to point out that I religiously avoid paying anything to hostile services, and that I do support the small independent instance I’m on.

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      • veniasilente@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I mean, you are not entitled to people being soldiers in your war against Big Tech. Like, I’d be totally for it, but some other time, nowadays I’m resting and being creative. Speaking of, not everyone here laps the crotch of Spotify et al. I’m a proud (but modest) pirate.

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  • matcha_addict@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The fediverse will never destroy big tech unfortunately. In their worst case, they will incorporate it and easily dominate.

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    • rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      If not completely destroy it, at least make it irrelevant for those who want to avoid it.

      The FOSS movement never destroyed Microsoft, but it arguably made it possible for us to live in a world where Bill Gates owned every PC software that we run.

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      • matcha_addict@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        In my opinion, the fediverse as it exists today is very vulnerable to domination by big tech. The only reason it hasn’t happened yet is it is too small for them to care that much.

        If the fediverse ever becomes mainstream, big tech will dominate it. If we want to fight big tech, we need to rethink our strategy and the fediverse, because right now, the fediverse is not ready to take it on.

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