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Simple question: Will you go back to Reddit and other centralized social media platforms, if Reddit step back from the API changes? The benefits of Reddit are obvisiouly, it has million of users and even small communitys have thousands of users.

For me it's pretty clear, after deleting my Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Discord accounts, the decentraliced Fediverse is my future in social media. Even with an very much smaller community, i'm not willing to be treated as ad-cow for the big corps.

But what do you think about your future in social media? Fediverse or Reddit, Meta, Google and all the others? Or will you go safe and use both, to have an backup option?

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[โ€“] TWeaK@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Eh, it's a misconception to think that capitalism is evil, and the problem. Capitalism is neutral, it's a simple method of value exchange - it takes x time in man hours to extract raw materials, y to manufacture a product, z to distribute it so the price should be x+y+z.

The issue is with people. People lie and try to inflate or deflate the value of things. They'll imply that it takes longer to do something, so they can sell it for more, meanwhile they'll pay their employees less than their time is worth. Capitalism's main failing is that it is too simple, it is unable to account for these human flaws.