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  • But after reading, Seems like your answer argues that open source federated alternatives are better than corporate social media. While I personally agree, the main subject of this thread is why the phenomena: “privately owned social media that seems to embrace us at first turns against us eventually”, actually more like “stops working eventually”. the subject is why this is inevitable, this paragraph is the main subject:

    No matter how great a commercial platform might be, sooner or later it’s going to either disappear or change in a way that doesn’t suit you because companies must constantly chase profit in order to survive. This is a bad situation to be in as a user since you have little control over the evolution of a platform.

    You mentioned Marxist theory. From what I understand, Marx or some other commie argued that the good capitalist who plays with the rules is left behind in the race (“If I don’t lobby someone else lobbies”) and the winners use all kinds of ways to create monopoly and destroy the ones slacking. Thus Capitalism leads to monopoly and kills competition and fairness inevitably.
    I kinda get the impression that corporate social media turning against its’ users is inevitable in the same fashion for some similar argument. That’s what Lemmy seems to think like.

    But, I don’t see it happening when I’m using Telegram, or when observing Valve’s behavior.








  • I don’t think so, I like USSR as a response to imperialism, current China is quite cool in many ways, but I don’t automatically support whatever governments agrees on just cuz they’re better than their competition.
    Also Karl Marx was kinda genius, but not sure how he uses violence in his theory, of course a political theory must contain a corner for violence, but it is hard for me to trace what exactly was Marx’s exact plan.