Reginald“We briefly had a library of alexandria and then fed it into a paper shredder so advertisers could sell a random mash of pulp back to us at a premium.”
Brian MacDonaldI'm coming to believe that the Internet as we knew it from say 1990 to 2010 was the anomaly. Nothing that powerful or that useful can survive as a public good in a capitalist system.
ℹ️❤️🖥 aka Compy-chan@bmac @raganwald it was the era that gave us Wikipedia, Mozilla, and the Internet Archive. There definitely was a trend of philanthropy amongst the Silicon Valley capitalists that’s just not there anymore
ShadSterling@bmac @raganwald @ilovecomputers “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.“ — Ursula K. LeGuin
Paul Sutton (zleap)There are stick pockets of resistance out there. Which gives some hope at least.
TudbuT@raganwald @ilovecomputers you can still do it, sort of. ive been working hard to disconnect myself from consumptive spaces and wire myself into creative ones and it has shown at least a pretty good level of success. its not great, search engines still died and all, but its not all lost. the good internet still exists but its more hidden and rare
Nazo@raganwald @ilovecomputers The worst thing for me is knowing that it doesn't have to be this way. You can't stop corporations from being greedy, but each step on this road was paved with people just taking whatever convenience was offered and not putting their foot down any time when it might be more inconvenient.
It's amazing how much is given up for even just a small convenience sometimes...
@nazokiyoubinbou @raganwald 💯%
That’s something I regularly think about https://xoxo.zone/@ilovecomputers/113816556220221020
The convenience trap that corporations set us up in
ℹ️❤️🖥 aka Compy-chan (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Whether it’s bikes or personal websites or linux, when we’re facing against the conveniences that can only be created by the vast resources of large corporations, it’s an uphill battle to gain wide adoption of alternatives that starve the monopolies https://chaos.social/@jollysea/113815005152396661
@ilovecomputers @raganwald Yep, that sums it up pretty nicely.