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How reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history: Did it, though? (www.theverge.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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How is reddit post protest, did it really win over protesters? Did the ones who left make a dent? Or like all things before, did it ultimately do nothing?

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[–] 17 points 3 years ago (3 children)

I'm hoping this is the direction we go, and I think it will be, though if the Fediverse ever overtook private social media, I'm pretty certain the tech companies would lobby to regulate social media, try to regulate who's allowed to host web servers, or lobby ISP's to raise bandwidth costs for people who do host web servers.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    I find myself not too creative with imagining what are they(corporations) gonna make money off. I like not know what Meta is planning with Threads or what's next with tech companies. I just have the distrust and reminder to not underestimate corporate greed.

    Your comments and other lemming comments tells me how corporate greed is gonna fuck us next.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Eh, I kinda hope that happens to be honest. I've finally got to the point where I just deeply refuse to use any of the large corporation stuff, and if they somehow kill community run social networks, then I'll finally be free of my addiction that I don't have the willpower to deal with as long as there's an ok-enough tempting alternative . Which I know is selfish, but I'd probably help me a lot :D

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Interesting. Maybe it's my lack of imagination, but I don't see how tech companies stamp us out by lobbying, or how web hosting and cloud services can be restricted based on use case. Seems like the genie is out of the bottle on this thing.

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