This is clear case of capitalism at its most advanced stage: monopoly capitalism. The competitive system that produces winners and losers will inevitably progress towards the concentration of capital in the hands of the few. There is no point in creating inaccurate terminology such as "techno-feudalism" when Marx and his intellectual successors had already studied this phenomenon in depth.
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.
Network effects and laziness are seriously heavy inertias.
Both are minimally disrupted by using multiple accounts. It’s not a marriage.
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
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.
Am I the only one around here that notices the irony and inconsistency of publishing this kind of stuff on Substack?
Acceptable and unproblematic levels of irony such that it's not really ironic at all without some major oversimplifications and assumptions. Like when workers go on strike, "oh how ironic that they're working for them in the first place!”
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you are right
Because it's subscription?
Meanwhile, if you sail the seven seas, you own everything you get your hands on.
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