This long, well-written rant talks a lot about how we end up in this situation. It really resonated for me. The more we have people trying to extract maximum shareholder value on the backs of all of us, the more inevitable the death of any centralized social media platform becomes.
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023
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Wonderful piece of writing that takes the internet as a place for human connection so seriously; I almost teared up at the end. Thanks for sharing it with us!
Cory Doctorow is a treasure. One of the biggest shames for the internet over the past decade has been users flocking to proprietary corporate platform after proprietary corporate platform while they all ultimately meet the same fate in the end. At least this time around people are choosing FOSS non-profit alternatives in higher numbers.
Past two decades, you mean? (I'm still mad about the crowd choosing MSN Messenger over open protocol chat programs back in '00)