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rglullis@communick.news 11 months agoWhy is profit a problem? How do you account for the cost of the labor of the developers, or the time spent by volunteers?
Just providing a service that people actually want to use.
Why isn’t that deserving of profit?
Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If we’re talking about my dream, that is my dream. A platform that isn’t trying to make money. It’s not wrong to want to make money, but a platform that is trying to make money isn’t my dream platform.
rglullis@communick.news 11 months ago
I think that my argument here is that “the platform” doesn’t exist. The fediverser (much like the internet) is not made of one single entity that defines it’s direction.
Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Maybe I missed some context to the question, but I didn’t know my ideal social media platform had to be something that already existed.
rglullis@communick.news 11 months ago
Your original answer was about “main important criteria I’m looking for” and everything else being “nice-to-haves”. You are taking OP’s description of desirable features that are completely attainable and turned into some pointless grandstanding against “profit”.
It’s the kind of thing that makes me lose all hope that we can ever win the fight against Big Tech and Surveillance Capitalism. Instead of saying “I’m so willing to have social media that doesn’t suck that I’m willing to pay $ for it”, you are saying “I don’t really care, as long as it magically materializes in front of me at the expense of someone else”.
It’s a lame, lazy cop-out.