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Electronic Frontier Foundation shouted out Lemmy, Kbin, and Mastodon in their Reddit coverage today: What Reddit Got Wrong (www.eff.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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From the article:

"Moving to the Fediverse

This tension between these communities and their host have, again, fueled more interest in the Fediverse as a decentralized refuge. A social network built on an open protocol can afford some host-agnosticism, and allow communities to persist even if individual hosts fail or start to abuse their power. Unfortunately, discussions of Reddit-like fediverse services Lemmy and Kbin on Reddit were colored by paranoia after the company banned users and subreddits related to these projects (reportedly due to “spam”). While these accounts and subreddits have been reinstated, the potential for censorship around such projects has made a Reddit exodus feel more urgently necessary, as we saw last fall when Twitter cracked down on discussions of its Fediverse-alternative, Mastodon."

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Capitalism is destroying the internet

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Unbridled capitalism is destroying ~~the internet~~ everything it touches.

When the ONLY motive for doing (or not doing) something is profit, things go to sit sooner or later. The example I often use is that we actually have enough food in the planet to feed everyone. We just throw a large portion of it away or destroy it, because in so many cases food is not made/grown to feed people, but to generate profits... Sad reality of late stage capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Agreed. A lot of it is due to misplaced or misrepresented priorities. If you don't account for human and environmental impacts in the proverbial "bottom line", you're gonna have a bad time. If we implemented metrics for sustainability and societal improvement as part of the "worth" or "profits" of a company, the world and our future in it may be a little less bleak of a place. Instead, the current system places waaay too much emphasis on short-term goals that are frankly not in line with what I would consider "productivity".

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Just the Internet, huh? I think it's ruining a few things. Especially when it's coupled w/ the forever growth mentality.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

hello healthcare

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Infinite growth is the philosophy of cancer

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh for sure. It’s destroying society in large swaths.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Also the planet itself. The trees won't chop themselves down.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It is but the FOSS community and projects like the Fediverse and increasing decentralization will go a long way to countering monetisation and the capitalist mindset