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@esther That is an interesting analogy, not only in the context of this Meta/Facebook business. People shouldn't be without housing because of real estate gambling, but providing housing still requires upkeep that in turn requires material goods and time and skills that the average person cannot be expected to provide themself, and sometimes interaction with outside structures (say, the fire department). It's not just "paying rent = capitalist concept = evil". 2 comments
@esther It's the same here. If the people in important positions of development and administration decide that they'd rather sell the soul of the fediverse to Facebook, too bad. Yes, individual admins can block, yes, the software development could fork, but that still needs people both able and willing to do this. It's also not just the fediverse. Wikipedia and AO3 are both non-profit, ad-free, and both have internal drama. TV Tropes (which is ad-funded) has drama. That's just the internet. |
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@esther If management of the company I rent from decided to sell out to Vonovia or something, this would surely cause problems for me. Doesn't make the workers I actually interact with (janitors, office people) evil capitalists.