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I agree, but the problem is that the rich have all the best fiscal experts, lawyers and politicians on their payroll.
And the rest of us are fighting amongst ourselves on which bathrooms transgender people should take or whatever symbolic pro or anti-immigration policy the politicians should implement.
As the majority, we have all the power, in theory. But until we have solidarity amongst the working class, we will not be able to yield that power effectively.
And yo avoid that unification, they have made all popular social media platforms kill themselves recently.
I'll wear this tin hat as long as I like; the 1% are actively waging war against out ability to coordinate, and I haven't seen ANYONE talking about it. It's no coincidence that reddit and Twitter both self destruction IMHO. I think it's especially evident with Elon's handing of Twitter.
You're not paranoid if they really are after you.
This is why the Fediverse is so important.
If we want to be free people, we must own our own free communication technologies
Let's be real, they are already here. The first whispers on the wind of a new gather place and they can just toss some money at 100 shleps to create and mod the right communitities. They need to be more lenient at first, like they were with reddit, but you'll see things like for example: mods of one large community, suddenly "helping out" with another spicy community, and things like the recent legalese fuckery in the change of service terms.
That was only possible in reddit because the admins have all the power.
In the Fediverse, they might take over the most popular instances, but a new instance can pop up anywhere.
Decentralization is extremely powerful. Just look at the resilience of piracy, darknets and crypto. They can't be controlled and neither can the Fediverse.
New instance popping up doesn't mean people will use that over the larger instance. Also it's super obnoxious dealing woth everyone wanting to be the power mod of thier own little community. Mod abuse here is 500x worse than Reddit ever was. At least reddit mods couldn't creep on users via instance metrics.
Don’t you think this is a little but unrealistic? Do you really think some corporate elite is going to risk exposing their secret agenda by bribing mods to sabotage some irrelevant niche social media platform?
.... yes
-Winces eyes at you suspectly-