Okay.
But you do realise the Soviet Union was socialist right? We kinda need to move away from the state based control model.
No.
I believe the hosts aren’t running this place to sell our data. A 3rd party might be scrapping the data, but that is irrelevant.
We’re so desperate to show we have OC that we beat every dead horse we see.
Both have a new wallpaper, this is truly an age of innovation.
Magic mirrors are so cool, I've been wanting to build one for ever since first seeing people make them on hackaday like 7 years ago.
It's on my 'one day I'll do this' project list'.
But we're not sold as a product by the instances hosts.
The point is people can offer things without ulterior motives.
Socialism exists only as a stepping stone to the end goal of anarchism/communism.
If you don't believe those work, there is no point in advocating for socialism.
Or anarchism or communism.
So what product are we on Lemmy exactly?
Believe it or not, people can do things for free without being driven by capitalism.
Anyone can get my data, it’s an open system where my data is sent to every single Fediverse server that is listening. That is irrelevant.
The point is that people (instance hosts, FOSS developers, etc) can create things for people to use for free without the user being a product.
Altruism exists, not everything is corporate greed where I am a product to generate revenue for the people offering it.