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but wait there's these spaces
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Young woman helping an old woman as she reminisces about the old web, "The web used to be open and distributed! Not closed and concentrated in the hands of a few companies!" The young woman, "Sure grandma, now let's get you to bed."
This feels like you want to rant about something else.
You're making the assumption anyone not happy with the current state of the internet must be some asshole that got de-platformed for being a Nazi.
You're also assuming all of this is about wanting people to have to see the things they say.
All of which is a strawman argument.
Fuck those people and their whining about whatever hate nest they were in before being banned from Reddit, but that's not the only thing happening here. And seeing as you're from lemmynsfw, I feel like you should know better than to assume that. I mean, hell, why are you here on the fediverse at all if those corporate controlled spaces are so agreeable? You know the Nazis aren't the only things those platforms eject, censor, or manipulate.
Being against corporations and the centralization of the internet under their umbrella on a few platforms is also about the way that ends up shaping the rest of the web and the standards that go along with it. The internet being primarily shaped by board rooms instead of people, basically. That was always at least somewhat the case but it's gotten dramatically worse.
And then Elon Musk buys the platform and ruins it. Let's not act like the people pulling the levers on this shit are always the actual developers or customers or contributors or whatever else you want to pretend makes a corporation do what it does.
Also, what's on those platforms? What, or who, gives them their value? Who makes the content that drives people to them? A well designed app is worthless without content. Who makes it?
They invested time and money to build a thing, human users are what made it worth a damn, then they make money on those user's work. So when those human users are fucked over by a board that needs to see the line go up, they have every right to be upset.