It’s crazy every corporate platform is made shitty after time. It is like the whole system is designed to get you to buy under false pretenses and then later pull the rug out from under you.

Oh wait, did you hear about the new corporate music platform!? Yeah it is great, they pay artist a ton and pinky promise to never turn evil. Let’s all go there!

A couple of years ago we reached the tipping point where artist are paying more for Spotify to promote their music than Spotify is paying the artists. Spotify is more evil than even the record companies at this point.

Streaming only reduced piracy because it presented a more convenient option. This formula has already changed with their predatory behavior.

The reason artist create has little to do with money. It was never about that and those that think it make shitty music and are owned by corporations.

Technology has set us free from corporate control, but we have to shun commercial platforms. We will never be free running to the wide open arms of business ready to fleece us and lock up our culture behind their pay walls.

Enshitification is here for every corporate platform. There is no escape. The days are 0% interest aka free money are now long gone.

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Your original statement was designed to conflate entirely different platforms as all toxic inherently regardless of corporate influence. This is demonstrably wrong.

Corporations have pushed these communities to become far more toxic through algorithms to push engagement thus creating the echo chambers you seem to be so concerned about.

Listen, I know it is not always easy to agree with people and I agree with most of what you say. I am just pointing out you are a little bit wrong about this one thing and that is open platforms that are not controlled by a singular entity are better and should not be lumped in with the corporate trash.

I am sorry you have a boner for Elon. That is you boo. You brought him a up so I talked about him. That is how conversations work in the real world.

Let me explain how stupid your prose of you must be a teenager which is meant to demean your fellow commenter is. You talk about being polite when you are the one being an asshole. So please spare me your shit.

You think open non-centralized platforms are no better than commercialized monetized platforms that actually create echo chambers. Your opinion is simply garbage.

That was a lot. Just kidding, you basically confirmed everything I said, you just took your time doing it. I find it funny you think insulting poor Elon would somehow detract from what I said.

Let me break it down for you. Elon is a Nepo baby manchild sexually assaulting conman. The real immaturity is people who are boot lickers buying into his propaganda that he knows more about manufacturing than anyone else.

This is of course bullshit as the thing he knows the most about us fucking his own employees to produce twelve, that we know of, crotch goblins that he does not take care of. Not only is he a shit dad he has already disowned one of his children confirming the garbage human he is.

He is not really CEO of two companies, this is a fantasy as it is not humanly possible. He does not really have involvement in five other businesses, he doesn’t even have the time to be two CEO at once. He does not care of his children. He does spend a lot of time voicing his shit opinions on Twatter, doing drugs, and playing video games. These are the things we can confirm he does

So please tell me I am child because I recognize he is a charlatan.

I grew up in Seattle in the 80’s. I really thought all races and sexualities were accepted and that men and women were equal. Boy was I surprised to find out a lot of our nation was backwards as fuck.

Monty Python made such sense to me philosophically so it was second nature to watch it. I didn’t even think of it as British and for me it will always be timeless

Monty Python and its absurdities are a breath of fresh air in a world gone stale.

I watched her talk and she is clearly not being honest. She uses a lot of buzzwords without any of the deeper philosophical underpinnings that would be necessary to truly create an open platform.

She plays like it will always be the way it is now which is frankly a lie being a for-profit entity with startup money from crypto bros.

Their terms of service will be changed when it suits them and already allow for their complete control of anything you share with them. Retaining your copyright means nothing if they can do whatever they want with what you share with them.

Finally we see the coupe de grace of binding arbitration in their terms. This is just another corporate attempt to be the next big social media thing. They will be hovering up all your personal details and selling it to marketers and AI bros before you can finishing signing on.

I reject that you lump a commercialized platform with decentralized ones. It kind of makes me think you are full of it to begin with.

What happened to Twitter after Muskrat can’t be compared to anything I have ever seen. It is a disservice to reality to try and play like Twitter was already like that. It is now purely a propaganda platform used to subvert democracy.

Reddit was way better before going corporate. You have to be a real bootlicker to think the corporation improved it. You cite some questionable reddits as proof corporate cleaned it up. I just see them commercializing the hard work of millions of people without compensation.

The Fediverse has already fulfilled it promise. While it may not be the final version of the future of decentralization, it is a great start.

I will never give my information or time to another corporate ran social media platform. They proved they are all abusive fucks aand are at war with the very users that allow their platforms to exist.

Oh look, Crazy Taxi in real life!

It is almost like he is not a genius and just has generational wealth.

I mean when was the last time “the person who knows the most about manufacturing in the world” spent all their free time doing drugs, posting on Twitter, and fucking his employees trying to pump out kid number thirteen.

There is a word for someone who fucks it all up but still is left holding the money. Conman, that is the word.

Came here to say this. One of the only games I went back to beat several more times. I was sad to finally stop playing, but I definitely got my monies worth. I don’t think I have been that into a game since half-life 2.

Right!? Kids will make their own Internet and social media from old phones and outdated routers laying around…

The Bureau of Honesty and Integrity.

I agree your belief is admirable, but it is extremely naive if you think it will make a difference on a large scale even if there are millions who believe what you do.

We already had a movement about peace, love, and understanding that was very popular with a huge chunk of the population doing the acts you described in the 1960s.

You have also clearly not spent any amount of time with the kind of people you think you can emphasize with. I lived in rural Idaho for Obama’s years. I couldn’t count the amount of times people joked about hanging or shooting him.

You want to empathize with a racist who wants a man dead just because he is black? I did plenty of this and guess the positive change it made. Yeah, it didn’t matter at all.

The only way is to stop the propaganda. This is the source. Hate radio, Faux News, and now Xshitter feed people with lies using psychological manipulation to twist their minds and hearts.

It takes years, sometimes decades, to deprogram people from this if they are willing to change. They are creating new racist losers at a pace you cannot keep up with. This is the reality we face.

You can spend years turning the heart of a racist and certainly some people have done this successfully.

Meanwhile propaganda has turned out another ten thousand racists in the time it took you to change a couple minds.

To be frank your belief is not completely wrong but it will not solve our current problems.

You hint on the reality that it is our social constructs such as social media that is driving this resurgence of hate.

As a social worker by trade I can say I know a lot about this topic. There is a classic story of people getting swept into the river.

While it is admirable that you want to jump in to save people the real solution is going upstream and stopping people from falling in.

Understanding racist losers will not accomplish what you want. Changing their minds will not either. You have to stop it at the source.

You just got to get to know the Nazi to understand them?

Oh wait it is more nuanced than that. You gotta get to know the racist to emphasize with them?

Dang it, we got to dig deeper. You have to get to know the misogynist to get them?

Sometimes getting to know someone is not the magical solution people think it is.

We have reached a great filter for society. If you are a woman and care about your rights you just need to know how a man voted to determine their value. You gotta dump if they voted for Trump.

My daughters have to live in this shit hole now. I am both angry and sad that it appears we are moving backwards.

I will fucking end someone if I hear them say this or anything like it to my daughter.

Yeah, that is what I thought.

You are fucking funny. Sure he has the time to run three corporations, raise his ten kids, and now be involved in the US government. Plus he spends an exorbitant amount of time on Twitter and doing drugs. Not to mention chasing his employees around trying to impregnate them.

What, in fact, does he actually do Infiniteasshole?