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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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      • rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Nice, I just hope that you are contributing with more than $1-2 per year. ;)

        Also, if you understand the importance of support it the instances, why don’t you wish that everyone did the same?

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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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      • rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I wasn’t the one starting the protests against Reddit, and I am not the screaming at my computer whenever Elon Musk says something completely stupid.

        I just thought that after all these years, more people have understood what “when you don’t pay for the product, you are the product” really meant.

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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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      • rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        How would that happen? If the core idea of “the Fediverse” is to have a loosely-connected network of servers and applications speaking a common protocol, how is it that they would use to “dominate” it?

        I am not saying that Big Tech couldn’t try to use it “open wash” their solutions, like Facebook and Google did with XMPP before. But what I am saying is that (like XMPP) I think it’s virtually impossible for them to “dominate” something that is open.

        I’m also not saying that the software we have is ready for the masses (it isn’t) but all the issues I see are just a matter of implementation, not a fundamental design flaw.

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