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  • MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    People are free to either agree with the CEO view or to not use the platform. Sad but true. At least it reminds us all that it is a private for-profit company and always has been. No matter whether the “value” of it was mostly provided by user-created contents.

    • 9point6@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It’s kind of a good example as to why the “benevolent dictator” idea is fundamentally flawed—you don’t really get two benevolent dictators in succession unless you’re incredibly lucky, and doesn’t matter how lucky you are, you’re not getting three in a row

    • SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.net
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      1 year ago

      He’s done everyone a few favors. He showed us that the government sticks it’s fingers into social media in ways that are illegal, and he also showed us that corpos aren’t a good alternative because they’ll stick their fingers into social media in ways that are legal.

      Decentralization and self-hosting is ultimately the only protection against forces that want to force us to see what they want us to see and nothing else.