rainerDec 8, 2022

The whole Twitter debacle has made me realize how horrible the current state of the web and its social media platforms is. As with anything, capitalism has taken control over the entire web, since every platform is dependant on advertisers, and therefor will not make decisions by what's morally, politically or otherwise right or wrong, but simply and solely based on what pleases the ad-buying companies.

The advertisers fund the web, keep it running. They make the rules. We are just tolerated.

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Since I've really, deeply realized how messed up the power structure of the internet is, I've also realized that approaches to the internet like Mastodon should, and hopefully soon will be the entire main stage of the web.
Sharing the workload of a global network between its users, decentralizing the data, and distributing the immense cost between the many people who use it, seems to me like the only way to actually have freedom of expression, since no huge external parties are depended on.
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If we manage to push advertisers out of the internet by building this independence, the internet should become a much less controlled, limited and honestly boring space.

At least these are my hopes and dreams. I'm sick of conglomerates controlling everything. I want to see a change. It can't continue like it is now.

Let me know what you think.