How could it be otherwise in a world where every startup dreams of selling to a large corporation? You won't get 60 million dollars or a billion dollars faster and only large corporations have that kind of money, it's math time = money. Justice was possible before 2000.
In my practice, I have been developing an alternative platform, OS and browser for 11 years and I realized that without major players your donation will be 0 for freedom, since you again need money and time to find relevant users.
If interesting, here is the link to the platform demo video:
https://vimeo.com/animationcpu
Tech giants are hijacking the internet
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Re: Tech giants are hijacking the internet
#42Martin Andree is a schmuck but he's right here.
Re: Tech giants are hijacking the internet
#43Well DW could do something about it by at least adding the fediverse on their abominable "follow us on X, Y, Z". DW does not even have an RSS feed for chris sake. The press is complicit in the hijacking of the internet. They made a Faustian pact. Now they are crying foul.
This type of internet forum reply is so commmon there is a name for it and even a Wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism The "whatabout" type replies would seem to require that the only websites that can report on the ills of the internet are ones that have no ads, no tracking, no telemetry, no data collection, and so on. Everything must be perfect. That's a bit silly. Shooting the messenger. Argu…
This type of internet forum reply is so commmon there is a name for it and even a Wikipedia page [1].
"A straw man fallacy (sometimes written as strawman) is the informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion, while not recognizing or acknowledging the distinction"
I did not ask that they don't have ads, not track their readers, and so on. I asked why there is no link whatsoever besides the usual big tech traps.
Re: Tech giants are hijacking the internet
#44Big tech is big because they built sustainable products that appeal to billions of people. There was no hijacking. Anyone can still make their own site and become popular. TikTok was able to become the number one site despite not being from big tech.
> built sustainable products Google is spending many millions of dollars per year developing and maintaining free software like Chrome and Android. If the government will miraculously enforce the current anti-competition laws and break the company like they did with Bell Systems in 1982, these Google’s products will suddenly become unsustainable.
They do not primarily maintain free softwares, they primarily maintain softwares to better control their business models.
And it is "free" because it does not impact their business models, on the contrary
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#45> Also, it must be ensured that user data is accessible to all competitors.
This doesn't sound like a good idea. The collection of user data and the underlying advertising business model is a problem to be removed, not a playing field for more competition and "improvement".
Re: Tech giants are hijacking the internet
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
They have plenty of feeds.
Where exactly? Visible through your rose tinted glasses? There is no visual hint on the page (RSS has a well established logo) and my rss reader does not autodiscover it from the main page.
Inoreader or Feedly list plenty of RSS links for DW
Re: Tech giants are hijacking the internet
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
They have plenty of feeds.
Where exactly? Visible through your rose tinted glasses? There is no visual hint on the page (RSS has a well established logo) and my rss reader does not autodiscover it from the main page.
Give me a break. You literally just type dw.com/rss. Logotypes or not this is pretty much a default address for RSS discovery.
Re: Tech giants are hijacking the internet
#48These are the symptoms. The diseases are centrally controlled IP, DNS and root certificates. The removal attempt of HTTP/1.1 is the biggest censorship in history. The only way to fight back is to self host DNS, HTTP and SMTP at home.
> The removal attempt of HTTP/1.1 is the biggest censorship in history.
I’d love some more context on this.
Re: Tech giants are hijacking the internet
#49Not entirely different from the industrial giants that control other industries. Our lives are largely controlled by them but we don't really see it
Re: Tech giants are hijacking the internet
#50Big tech is big because they built sustainable products that appeal to billions of people. There was no hijacking. Anyone can still make their own site and become popular. TikTok was able to become the number one site despite not being from big tech.
Exactly, it's just a scare tactic to make us and 'the enemies' believe that there's no way out and we already lost. The solution is in front of us, all that time. I follow a lot of blogs I scrambled together over the years from this place called HN, I do that with RSS. It's enough for me to get a good and healthy information diet (all your blogposts together are way more interesting than any social media platform can…
This is just as much a social media platform on the Internet as all the others. Fewer pictures, same drama.