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[–] sharp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] sharp@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago

I've always loved this allegory, but it can be applied to redfash as much as it can to xenophobes.

[–] sharp@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 years ago

From Cory Doctorow:

Here is how platforms die: First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/

Some of it is because we had a decade of cheap borrowing which has come to an end and many of these platforms were never profitable.

[–] sharp@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Where are the self described anarchist devs? I've only seen self described communism (and censorship of criticism of authoritarian governments on dev run instance.)

[–] sharp@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Hate to see tankies running the software and big parts of the platform.

[–] sharp@sh.itjust.works 73 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

There's some talk about "a rise in anti-China posts that have hit Reddit lately" in https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/users/07-history-of-lemmy.html, which struck me as odd.

Criticism of any governments should be allowed, especially authoritarian ones.