Honestly, if I was a capitalism defender, I'd go to Threads to be monetized by Zuck, but since I know zuck is a capitalist I know any niceties provided today will be pay/ad walled if the platform becomes popular the next time Zuck wants to stoke his quarterly growth/metastasis estimates.

There is no safe harbor to be had putting your faith in capitalists, only exploitation in the name of sociopathic, unquenchable greed. It's never enough, and when the chips are down and you participate, it will be taken out of your ass sooner or later.

It would be lovely if the capitalism cheerleaders could learn this through experience, but they never seem to, even after getting their ass kicked by it. Unless you hold significant capital (if you have to ask how much you need, you are not), you are not a capitalist, you are the capitalist's livestock.

[–] Creyapnilla@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

Ant's eye view: I'm here because my app stopped working 😂

[–] kogasa@programming.dev -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This has less to do with liking capitalism than it does with self-avowed communists on the internet being insufferable.

[–] Kayel@aussie.zone 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh no, the open source community who worked together to create a great ecosystem for free and fto the benefit of all, in the face of data greedy capitalists are commies!

Save me from these sexy FOSS anticapitalists

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Again, not the point.

[–] socsa@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Exactly. I legitimately long for an actual leftist space which isn't just edgy anti-western brain rot. I want to actually discuss theory and praxis and statecraft with people who can actually acknowledge that obsessive Chinese autocracy should be condemned as harshly as western imperialism. Unfortunately, my experience on Lemmy has once again demonstrated that this is impossible.