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I actually agree, just coming from another angle. Very long post incoming.
We allowed this culture of "big tech" to take over the minds of normies. We glorified these "self made tech entrepreneurs" who came up from "nothing", selling the dream to young people. Wow, so much money so fast, look at these guys making electronics in their basements now they're super rich! People love a good story. What an american dream story, that could have been me.
Only, it didn't happen for everyone, right? As it doesn't nowadays, either.
I remember watching the Zuck movie and was getting pissed off as it went on. I resented that little shit in the film and his success. I could program his "amazing" friend network he started this all with at uni when I was 11. I built a multi-modem BBS system from scratch at 12. I know people who were even better. A friend created a hex editor in assembly at 11 yo. With it we cracked simcity's copy protection with freaking DEBUG on DOS in 3 days back then. We just were born in the wrong place at the wrong time (no big VC investors or silicon valley in Greece or any entrepreneurial mentality). I always felt guilty about resenting these guys, thought I was being petty and jealous. Probably am but life is not fair and jealousy can be a motivator, too. I was simply lazier than them, right? I did OK.
Well, after a while when I read Steve Jobs' biography and read about Bill Gates and the whole hacker scene back then I realized what was pissing me off about these guys. It's that serendipity and luck is the biggest success factor, coupled with being ready to jump on the opportunity and BE AN ASSHOLE. I met many smart and capable people that didn't get anywhere because they never got a break or because they didn't want to be assholes.
So, we made heroes of these people, a large percentage of whom are psychopaths and sociopaths, and they used this to humanize these big tech brands they created, these global for-profit over-your-dead-body conglomerates, that now control communication and culture even more than the mass media. The small companies of hackers we all admire transformed into this goo of PR experts, UI/UX designers and accountants and we just let it happen. We all went to work for them cause the money was good and we gave them our talent and they painted it with their logo. Now that they're laying off all the layabouts and removing the 'juice bars' at work and all that mythology is collapsing around their ears, what with the pandemic and remote work being rolled back into the corporate money barn, we'll learn. I hope.
So we may shill the fedi but that's IMHO still not perfect, either because it's very susceptible to corporate takeover, just like email. At least it's better than the other shit that's around. But we'll never get the "hero" prestige these people got, we're fighting uphill in the minds of normies. Big tech = good, free and good capitalism. Open source = cheap, unpolished, unsupported. But that's collapsing, too.
I'm rambling.-
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@corfiot @meso @thelioma @p @revvy @NEETzsche Steve Jobs is a retarded dirty hippie that lied his way into Atari and should have been told to fuck off by everyone
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@corfiot @meso @thelioma @p @revvy @NEETzsche @coolboymew the one thing keeping the Fedi from corporate takeovers is we can say slurs and we got pushed out of their plantation.
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@corfiot @NEETzsche @coolboymew @meso @p @revvy @thelioma related; look at the divide between the mastodon corporate hr person side and the fun side. Look at how just yesterday dotnet.social got mocked for it's blocklist by us, or the journalist raid.
But it's also harder to kill since well the corporate internet alienated a lot of people. You won't get normies but do you want shapeshifters who pretend to give a shit about your interest before watching Netflix and playing generic aaa games?
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> we can say slurs and we got pushed out of their plantation.
Once you're the minority you're only pushing yourself out of the main core of the group. Saying slurs doesn't make you special, it's just a way to gatekeep and/or alienate people.
If corporate wanted to take over fedi, they'd do it within 2 months and you'd be "slurring" your way to oblivion with your friends, just like what happened to gab vs fedi.
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@corfiot @PhenomX6 @meso @thelioma @p @revvy @NEETzsche @coolboymew No, it wouldn't be much different to now.
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