• Onii-Chan@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    100% this. For everyone that takes their online privacy and freedom very seriously, there are literal millions of others who couldn’t give less of a fuck and proudly parrot the “if you have nothing to hide, you’ve got nothing to worry about” bullshit, like they’re some enlightened cunt atop their own tower who conveniently ignores the consequences of every company that experiences a major data breach.

    These people are the reason the internet has devolved as hard as it has, and it makes me sick to know there’s nothing that can be done to stop things from only getting worse - the masses enable the surveillance capitalist machine, and what’s worse is that they’ve become convinced they need it to survive. Meta pushing their fucking nose into places it isn’t welcome, like the fediverse, just further proved it to me. These big tech firms will not stop until they own a piece of every free region of the internet, and they know that no matter how vocal their opponents are, that the lobotomized fuckwits that make up the bulk of their userbase will just lap up anything they put out.

    Social media was a fucking huge mistake.

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      1 year ago

      Not to sound like a naïve, brain dead optimist but maybe this is our chance to draw our line in the sand. If Threads falls on its face, it will likely serve as precedence for other companies who think they can use the fediverse for their own gain, no?

      As Louis Rossmann says, “never go to war with the internet because you will lose”. I’d like to think that the people who make that quote possible are all migrating or have migrated to the fediverse.