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PotatoesFall

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Are We Transitioning From Capitalism to Silicon Serfdom? (jacobin.com)

Are We Transitioning From Capitalism to Silicon Serfdom?::The idea that we are entering an era of techno-feudalism that will be worse than capitalism is chilling and controversial. We asked former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis to elucidate this idea, explain how we got here, and map out some alternatives.

PotatoesFall ,

In capitalism, the core problem is power of business owners over employees. Tech giants hold incredible power over all of their consumers - aka the entire world.

The most famous billionaires are all tech giants like Zuck, Gates, Musk, Bezos. It's because they are in the news all the time as they decide over everybody's life now, despite not being elected.

YouTube, Insta, Tik Tok, Twitter, Facebook and friends are the main way political opinions are formed, especially for teenagers. That power should be in the hands of millions of teachers, activists and journalists, not a handful of billionaires.

Markets are supposed to keep capitalism in check. That doesn't work so good but they seem to be even more ineffective in keeping the tech market in check, especially social media.

PotatoesFall ,

I agree with all but the first sentence. Markets do a terrible job at keeping capitalism in check but they are supposed to, at least that's what capitalism stans argue.

PotatoesFall ,

have you been to an open source convention?

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Nothing wrong with playing more DnD but Paizo jas definitely shown they care more about the community than Wizards. All the rules being free online is just absolutely banging and makes for better community built tools than DnD ever had

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I play with a group now! All you have to do is become forever DM...

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people hating on flatpak is a clear indicator of people who don't prioritize an easily useful system.

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I ain't reading all that

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BD actually stands for Bondage & Discipline.
Domination is part of DS, Domination & Submission.
And for completeness, SM = Sadism & Masochism.

PotatoesFall ,

IMO they were already shit before the drama. There was some good stuff in the past, but for a while now they just produce a lot of videos with not a lot of content.

PotatoesFall ,

that sounds super profound but imo makes no sense, what's your point? What is the euphemism in the OP?

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unlike android i don't think it's possible to install another app store (iPhone user please confirm)

PotatoesFall ,

that's the joke i think

PotatoesFall ,

Meta is trying to extinguish (part of) the fediverse. If a user wants to participate in that, they are not welcome on my server in the first place.

PotatoesFall ,

It's just not in their interest to be a normal part of the fediverse. It's in their interest to compete with mastodon. Mastodon is not competitive because it doesn't have billions of dollars in its budget.

EEE works the way it always has. Add features not present in Mastodon that only work on threads. People want those features and join threads, Mastodon users are missing out. Long time Mastodon users create a second Threads account so they can interact properly with their friends, and eventually abandon their old Mastodon account.

I used Mastodon but the same applies to firefish etc, any fediverse technology that will interact with threads. It probably won't impact Lemmy.

PotatoesFall ,

I see your point but I think you might not know all the reasons for defederation. There is nothing wrong with wanting to interact with people on other platforms of course.

However, Meta is a huge company and it is not in Meta's interest to have an open fediverse with many diverse platforms. Platforms like instagram are notoriously predatory walled gardens. They grow until there is tons of people on them and they have a quasi-monopoly, then they crank up ads, force people to make an account and/or download an app to see content. Their content cannot be seen from elsewhere.

If their services have been closed off in walled gardens until now, why would they suddenly shift and want to support ActivityPub? Mastodon is big but not big enough that people feel they are missing out by being on other platforms. I doubt they expect to attract significantly more users that way. They want to create a way to become part of the fediverse through their platform. Given the sheer amount of money Meta has, they will then make Threads the most bestest and easiest way to do microblogging on the fediverse. Find a mastodon instance? ugh what a hassle, just join Threads. Then they can start adding features that mastodon and firefish don't have. People will switch to threads for these features, and voila, the age old strategy of embrace-extend-extinguish is done.

Even if we assume that is not their motive, the fediverse is about open, democratic and collaborative social media. Those values are directly opposed by Meta's entire business model (and their business itself which is generating shareholder profits). Now if some small company was part of the fediverse who cares, but Meta is a huge behemoth and IMO we're better off building a world without them, rather than inviting them into it to compete against largely volunteer-built software. Let's learn from the past.

PotatoesFall ,

There is no other way. may the weakest man lose 🫡 (women and non-binary people always win)

PotatoesFall ,

I've had sleep paralysis and you can't talk... Although I guess some people sleeptalk and for them that might be different?

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weird that it isn't on F-droid

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Are you certain whatever you're doing is worth it?

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CS lecturers aren't necessarily good programmers. If people workong at big tech companies would do this in their spare time, now that would be fantastic.

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