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• 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not wanting to be dependent on big tech isn’t uniquely a leftist ideal

  Are you sure? most people working on projects against big tech tend to be very left leaning. The conservatives love using the appeal of authority to silence minorities and voices they don’t like.

  Right wing creeping up to take control of these spaces doesn’t make it their ideal.

  I could be wrong. Can you name some popular projects against big tech by conservatives?

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  • qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Can you name some popular projects against big tech by conservatives?

    The entire alt-tech sphere, I guess, but other than that I can’t really think of many projects that explicitly say they lean right or left. As far as I can tell, most projects focus on working on whatever they’re trying to accomplish and don’t mention their political opinions for whatever reason, maybe because they don’t want to alienate their users and contributors or maybe because they are made by many people, each with their own opinions, and there isn’t a single shared belief system behind it, like ThePirateBay for example. We can try to infer what political stance someone holds, like the CEO of Brave, for example, who donated some money to an anti-gay marriage bill in 2008, or the CEO of Proton, who said some positive things about the Republican party recently, but I don’t think it’s fair to assign a political affiliation to the entire project because some of the team members expressed their opinions. 

    Are you sure? most people working on projects against big tech tend to be very left leaning.

    I think that you make a mistake and assume that just because someone agrees with you on not wanting to be reliant on big tech, they also agree with you on everything else, or you read something like 

    We want to advance human rights and freedoms by creating and deploying free and open source anonymity and privacy technologies, supporting their unrestricted availability and use, and furthering their scientific and popular understanding

    and falsely assign that to be a left-wing stance, when in reality most people, left or right, would support that. I haven’t seen any evidence that most people working on anti big tech projects are left-leaning. Most people don’t publicly share their political beliefs.

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  • IronBird@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    even bootlickers want to feel like they’re talking to other real bootlickers, in their online spaces, not just bot/LLM spam

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• NONE_dc@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hmm, that sounds fair.

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