this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2023
286 points (96.4% liked)

Technology

34838 readers
20 users here now

This is the official technology community of Lemmy.ml for all news related to creation and use of technology, and to facilitate civil, meaningful discussion around it.


Ask in DM before posting product reviews or ads. All such posts otherwise are subject to removal.


Rules:

1: All Lemmy rules apply

2: Do not post low effort posts

3: NEVER post naziped*gore stuff

4: Always post article URLs or their archived version URLs as sources, NOT screenshots. Help the blind users.

5: personal rants of Big Tech CEOs like Elon Musk are unwelcome (does not include posts about their companies affecting wide range of people)

6: no advertisement posts unless verified as legitimate and non-exploitative/non-consumerist

7: crypto related posts, unless essential, are disallowed

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This has to end at some point. Practically everything is owned by like 5 companies, and they don't even acquire them for any particular reason, other than to prevent someone else from doing the same.

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

Reminds me of my monopoly strategy

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's their monopoly strategy too. Difference is that we're playing it with toy pieces, and they're playing it for real