• RoyaltyInTraining@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    CEOs will happily restrict your freedoms for just a bit of profit, and destroy any competitors who threaten their monopoly. I don’t get how anyone can defend this system in good faith.

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      1 year ago

      Can’t eliminate the “I’ll just do without” competition.

      Like, when I got rid of Netflix… I didn’t sign up for an additional new service. I just watch YouTube.

      When I stopped using Facebook so much, I didn’t go to another service – I just didn’t use social media as much.

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      1 year ago

      People need to realize that using services like Reddit isn’t a freedom, it is a privilege. Their servers, their rules.

      People need to not accept services with a single point of failure, like a company. Time and time again, we have seen failure or degradation of services by companies. Ex. Twitter, Reddit, Yahoo. Twitch and Discord are heading the same way too.

      People if people want to be free from these antics, we need to teach companies we won’t accept data silos. We want and NEED decentralized federated services.