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Cory Doctorow: "Mastodon is far from perfect. But I only have so many hours in the day, and only so many days left in my life. I would much rather spend those precious hours making a open service better than using a temporarily superior closed one. I have seen that movie. I know how it ends"
https://doctorow.medium.com/fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again-20074e311f1f
@neurovagrant @Madaligned Element is one of the leading projects built on Matrix, and it is very similar to Discord. I wish more people would use it.
Now it's true that Threads gets users to critical mass immediately thanks to Instagram & FB. The *real* lesson there is not that their power wins but that portability of one's own social graph is vital and we must insist on it.
@AmyZenunim embrace, extend, extinguish.
@Nalivai @xoagray Odysee is pretty good.
@mikemol @georgetakei the solution is to hold congress accountable for not doing their job. The issue isn't the supreme court, the issue is that both parties are relying on the court to reinterpret laws, when congress should be writing new legislation.
@darkrat @crumbcake what a bunch of clowns. I was there when Digg failed, now Reddit is killing their base. On to Lemmy?
@mastodonmigration don't let Perfect be the enemy of Good. If you think the Lemmy devs are suspicious, you should check out who funds the rest of the big internet media companies.
@davidgerard It seems like centralizing the internet into the hands of a few large American corporations, was a bad idea. Who could have guessed. All of the popular forums I used to frequent are gone now, as they migrated to Discord or Reddit because that is where the users are/were. Now decades of history and information is at risk of vanishing, because one person made a dumb decision.

America’s legal system today

I want to practice law:
—You need a 4 year Bachelors, take the LSAT, then a 3 year JD, then pass the BAR, buy malpractice insurance, & total cost is ~$300K

I want to enforce the law:
—Here’s paid 13-week training & a gun

I want to write the law:
—No qualifications needed and a billionaire can buy you a seat