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Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media
(catvalente.substack.com)
this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2023
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God I love this rant.
I feel this in my damn bones.
I hope you're right. I'm betting on the Fediverse, and the fact that it is not corporate owned and can be forked anytime it needs it. I'm hoping that really all it needs to run is servers, moderators and administrators willing to moderate and administer. I'm hoping that the lack of corporate involvement allows it to continue and be a place where we can actually build communities.
As an aside, we need to do away with the idea that corporations are people. We need to remember that they are run by people but are not people themselves.
YEP. The US "corporate personhood" law has always struck me as one of the most on-the-nose examples of dystopian capitalist BS, tbh.
Not corporate-owned...yet.
In my experience, which is pretty similar to the author's, it always finds a way.
Until then, pull up a chair.
Agreed, it does seem to always find a way. Hopefully it takes longer due to the nature of each instance being separate. The recent apoplexy at Threads joining the Fedivervse seems to indicate that many users are aware of the need to not have anything to do with any monied interests beyond server costs.
This article is filled with good lines. I particularly liked this visual describing the communities and audiences built by artists being taken over and destroyed by Musk:
“You have to be very famous to be safe from the effects of your biggest microphone being crammed up a rich white man’s ass and set to reverb. I am certainly not. Few of us are.”