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R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:

@bed

"Most people don't care about" anything at all until it is far too late to change it for the better.

Look all around you. This is the biggest community of Don Quixotes I've ever seen, and once we get a taste of the freedom from corporate-controlled garbage, we ain't letting go of it.

I'm all for "lost" causes, because they're only truly lost when you decide to surrender them.

@simon_lucy @jaredwhite @jamescridland

26 Jan 2023 at 12:29 | Wall-to-wall | Open on fosstodon.org
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Bed replied to R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:

@RL_Dane @simon_lucy @jaredwhite @jamescridland I don’t disagree. My point is argue against exclusivity itself. Don’t argue semantics on terminology

26 Jan 2023 at 12:48 | Open on aus.social
R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd: replied to Bed

@bed

But even the semantics are a bloody corporate PsyOp. :blobcatverysad:

If the corporations think it's important enough to pour millions into re-defining a word, is that definition then inherently worth fighting for? I certainly think so.

I'm not even necessary anti-capitalist; I'm seeing where things are heading and I'm responding with one big fat "Aw hail no."

Corporate efforts toward digital hegemony doth make digital socialists of us all.
Or digital chattel.

@simon_lucy @jaredwhite

@bed

But even the semantics are a bloody corporate PsyOp. :blobcatverysad:

If the corporations think it's important enough to pour millions into re-defining a word, is that definition then inherently worth fighting for? I certainly think so.

I'm not even necessary anti-capitalist; I'm seeing where things are heading and I'm responding with one big fat "Aw hail no."

26 Jan 2023 at 13:21 | Open on fosstodon.org
Bed replied to R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:

@RL_Dane @simon_lucy @jaredwhite it’s a nice ideal, I just don’t think it’s particularly pragmatic. Good luck tho!

26 Jan 2023 at 13:24 | Open on aus.social
Bed replied to R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:

@RL_Dane @simon_lucy @jaredwhite @jamescridland agree! To clarify I don’t think fighting against closed platforms is a lost cause. I think it’s the trying to stop the term “podcast” being used by closed platforms that is the lost cause.

26 Jan 2023 at 23:39 | Open on aus.social
R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd: replied to Bed

@bed

I don't think anyone is realistically trying to stop *platforms*, that really WOULD be tilting at windmills.

But advocacy? Persuasion? Even snark?

That's where it's at! :ablobcatrave:

@simon_lucy @jaredwhite @jamescridland

27 Jan 2023 at 0:55 | Open on fosstodon.org
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