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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Who said anything about the government stepping in to take over? I certainly didn’t say that. Something like Lemmy (and the Fediverse in general) isn’t government controlled, in fact it isn’t controlled by any one entity, which is one of its strengths. If you’re looking for a possible alternative to corporate or government control of media, you’re using one right now.

    The problem is that Google has become a defacto default for most people. That didn’t happen just because people “decided” to start using it, the decision was made for them because Google has a great deal of money and power and can use that influence to essentially make the decision for people.




  • Reddit is a capitalist endeavour like any other and once the venture capital runs out and it needs to be profitable on its own, the users/community become (even more) secondary to maximizing value for shareholders. This current controversy is just the inevitable result of that and is a great time to take note of the reality of the situation (which is nothing new) and hopefully the fediverse alternatives will continue to gain traction.

    My opinion is that these exploitative social networks need to die, they’re not good for people and their profit motive will always be at odds with what’s good for the actual people using them.