You would hope the corporate collaborators of this fascist regime will one day get their comeuppance. Sadly, if the history of corporate collaborators in Nazi Germany is anything to go by, most likely not much will happen to them or their officers...
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the reason they got away is because the Germans expected the cops to handle the nazi cops. when a more hands on solution would've been more expedient
Right. Coke/Fanta, IBM, Hugo Boss, idk how many German automakers, Ford, Chanel, the list goes on. All household names around the world, without the slightest pangs of conscience. If only corporations were legally considered people and could be tried and exec- oh wait, they ARE considered people.
Get ready for the next reddit exodus. Honestly I can't wait.
Reddit is the new FaceBook. People won’t leave so much as younger people will use the next thing.
Facebook is still around in a somewhat diminished form. I expect Reddit will persist, too.
Reddit is quite literally Facebook these days. I really think most of the userbase right now is the people who started using the Facebook app on their phone thinking that's what the internet is. Finally after much inertia they've ventured over to the reddit app to explore another part of this "internet" thing.
So many users call subreddits "groups" because that's the colloquialism they brought over from Facebook. They don't know what to call subreddits. So they fumble around different phrasing. They say things like "this group", "this reddit", "this r". Yet never seem to come around to understanding it's called subreddit. It's a sign of how the long standing tradition of new users adopting local culture is no longer a thing. New users come in and ignore everything while doing whatever the fuck. God forbid they start getting mod power after some exodus cause then the subreddit is definitely done for.
Quite frankly it's full of idiots. Not the usual reddit idiot of past years. Reddit's current userbase is a whole other beast right now. So many users seemingly never used technology in their life before. They can't even reply to correct comments. People are posting top level comments instead of replying to the proper one. A concerning amount of people think it's a flat, time sorted message board. They can't wrap their head around the technical mechanics of a comment section.
Worst of all they have zero internet literacy. Zero idea of internet lore. It's like talking to my grandparents about technology. They have no idea about anything.
Nobody can speak or understand when I reference internet history either. Pretty rare to find anyone anymore that can reply knowing what I'm talking about when making historical internet references that any adult should be able to know about.
A concerning trend I've noticed is that often it will be a right wing troll that comes in to lie whenever mentioning their sordid history of right wing hate and violence on the internet. Must be one of the troll farms that actively flood the zone with shit. For some reason people are so eager to believe the lies. This rant is kind of going off topic now anyways.
Oh yeah and seemingly a lot of people are dictating their reddit replies. That's just bizarre to me but okay. I guess it makes sense why internet posting has changed so much. In particular, walls of text (such as this) aren't common anymore. Nobody does brain dumps anymore. Because to them, this reply would be said out loud into my phone like some lunatic instead of typing out a string of thoughts real quick.
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Honestly. i think Facebook only still exists because of Marketplace.
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Don't wish for that. The more mainstream Lemmy becomes, the more it'll become a target for the regime's surveillance apparatus.
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But the Dow.
In about 10 years we will be reading articles like "Do you remember Reddit, Meta and Google?". This shit can only go on for so long before other alternatives present themselves.
I wouldn't count on that. People are too lazy to change.
Hugo Boss agrees.
Google are still a major player because they hold monopolies in several markets. I see them as "too big to fail."
No other platform does long form user-generated video content like YouTube. The only other smartphone, tablet and smart watch OS that even holds a candle to Android is a walled garden exclusive to the Apple ecosystem. Even in search they hold a near-total monopoly with around 85 - 95% of all search traffic going through them (depending on which source you ask and if they consider ChatGPT a search engine.) Even Microsoft offering gift card rewards for using Bing search wasn't enough to convince people to try them.
Even in markets where they don't have a monopoly.... GMail is the most popular free email service, Fiber has silently grown to have service in 19 US states despite significant pushback and lobbying from rival internet service providers, they're the only viable alternative to Microsoft in the office productivity software market, virtually every major web browser except for Firefox is built on Chromium, even Waymo is the only (non-Chinese) robotaxi service currently in operation although that market is potentially going to blow up.
Even in the generative AI market they're not only whooping OpenAI's and Microsoft's asses, but can reliably hedge their bets on AI if the bubble does start burst.
I generally agree with you, with 2 caveats:
No other platform does long form user-generated video content like YouTube.
Dailymotion does it too.
Reproducing YouTube's features isn't the hardest. Getting its network effect is.
Even in the generative AI market they're not only whooping OpenAI's and Microsoft's asses
I was barely able to remember the name of Google's gen AI. It's not really relevant in the corporate world. I don't think they are close to whooping OpenAI and Microsoft's asses.
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Amazon, Microsoft and Google run so much cloud infrastructure that it's not in the power of ordinary peasants like us to even make a dent in their business. When we use pretty much anything online we're helping support them. And US corporations have little incentive to leave those services because the end users don't even know what they use for their backends. Foreign governments and companies are the main organizations that have the power to make an impact on big US tech by taking their cloud business elsewhere.
MIght happen a lot sooner than you think. Do you remember yahoomail?
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Fuck you spez.
Then I'm glad that Reddit permabanned me in the post-Inauguration bloodbath, before ICE spun up and I would have been calling for justice.
BUT, I also had a 12 year account with a million Karma, so I have plenty of juicy anti-MAGA and anti-Trump (I called him HitlerPig for a long time) posts for them to prosecute me for.
So it looks like being a government slave in the work camps is my retirement plan.
Oh, they're not going to like me at all.
I'm not making it to the slave camps, and me, my crossbows, and my knives are taking as many of them with me as I can
I like your thinking. Also slingshots and ball bearings. One of those to the face will slow you down. David and Goliath time.
And don't forget your videogame lessons. Pick up any loot your victims drop. Lots of good guns, ammo, and body armor.
Stay in the shadows, brother.
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Not quite perma'd but I did get banned from a default sub recently over a banal comment that some power tripping cuck power mod didn't like and saw as ban-worthy. Not even gonna bother appealing it because I know in true Reddit fashion they'll respond with a "fuck you" and 28 day modmail mute, then cwy hawassment to the admins if I try to push it any further.
Maybe this is a sign that Reddit truly is turning to shit.
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On one hand, I'm so glad to be British and not living under Trump's jurisdiction.
But on the other hand, I don't think I'm gonna be visiting the USA anytime soon, unless I feel like being detained by ICE or turned away at the border for being critical of the orange man and the Gestapo he's empowered.
Canadian here. One of my girlfriends lives in Ohio.
She comes to visit us. Not the other way around. Even if this administration burns to the ground, it's going to take a long time to renew my trust in America to ever step foot in that country again. I used to travel there. I used to deliver there as a truck driver. I spent a lot of time in America.
Not anymore. I'm in my late 30s and I may never visit America ever again after this.
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But not Lemmy right... right?
lol Fuck ICE, they will get what's coming once midterms happen. Especially those that have hurt or murdered people.
I wanna say lemmy is to small for them to care right now. They got enough to monitor with those 3 alone. Definitely one day though.
They're here, they're just on shifts and are approximately 7-30 accounts, depending on time. Hopefully, it stays around that.
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All votes and comments are publicly accessible, something worth keeping in mind when sharing here.
lol yeah I know. I don't post anything I wouldn't want read in a court
Nothing is going to happen to them come midterms. I'll only believe something good can happen in this country after it happens.
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At this rate midterms are gonna be as Fair and Balanced™ as a Fox News bulletin.
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Fuck spez
Might be a naive question but what prevents instance admins here on Lemmy to also give this information?
Nothing, though instances outside the US would have less reason to.
Only benefit is that it's fragmented so there's fewer people any individual instance can give information on.
Oh yeah that’s true, and also that’s why we should move away from lemmy.world. It’s great to welcome newcomers but it shouldn’t be where most users are.
.world is hosted in Finland, so theoretically they wouldn't have to cooperate, but they're pretty squeamish about standing up to corpos so I wouldn't count on it.
Nothing. There also nothing to prevent instances to be ran by anyone. Lemmy is about sharing information with low regulation not privacy.
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Im so surprised that the most powerful big tech companies are not there to do the right thing.
Das war bei uns genauso, absolut nicht überraschend. Viel Glück weiterhin.
Come get me. I'm waiting.
Exactly. They can meet my machete.
Well that is pretty much the reason I moved here.
I'm glad I migrated away from Google's services.
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