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Techno-feudalism: We own nothing and just pay rent to billionaires (asiandadenergy.substack.com)
submitted 20 hours ago by lithiumground@lemmy.world to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43439862

Modern oligarchs like Musk, Bezos, Gates, and Zuckerberg are exactly like medieval lords. The top 1% controls all resources, and it is almost impossible to buy an apartment today. We own nothing and just pay rent or subscribe to their platforms. These billionaires have total power to fire thousands of workers anytime and buy politicians for their own interest. They say they work for humanity, but it is just fake marketing. For example, they are silent on wars in Palestine and Ukraine. Majority of ordinary people and developers are too naive. They believe these lies and fail to see the real system

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[-] lithiumground@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

We need to popularize the account diversification approach. So people don’t have to leave the popular platforms but allow smaller ones to grow. There are renowned figures that go on and about this „feudalism“ giving long talks, writing books about it and seem not capable of spending 2 minutes opening a new account on Mastodon, Peertube etc. and posting their contents there too. It’s weird and stupid.

I do, but they resist to not use instagram,facebook,wp,etc. https://lemmy.world/post/43439904/22281078

[-] linule@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

It’s ok to use them. That’s the strategy. A good way to organize on consumption side is to start with the low-traffic platforms, consume the little content that’s available (there’s something genuinely satisfactory about being able to scroll through all the „new posts“, something that you usually can’t do on the established sites), when done move to higher traffic. And when posting just mechanically post on multiple. It’s just switching apps/tabs, which is almost as easy as navigating within a given site.

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