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"All" includes federated servers.

That 1345 usage seems dubious...looks like whoever wrote that manuscript just added a flourish to the alpha character.

Yes because decentralisation and decorporatisation is not just for nerds. It needs to be for everyone, about trying to make the world better for everyone.

Strange reaction, no need for the personal attack. Enjoy your day.

Who said anything about the government stepping in to take over? I certainly didn't say that. Something like Lemmy (and the Fediverse in general) isn't government controlled, in fact it isn't controlled by any one entity, which is one of its strengths. If you're looking for a possible alternative to corporate or government control of media, you're using one right now.

The problem is that Google has become a defacto default for most people. That didn't happen just because people "decided" to start using it, the decision was made for them because Google has a great deal of money and power and can use that influence to essentially make the decision for people.

I would tend to agree with everything in the article. Be careful about calling anyone who downvotes you a bigot though...sowing division is ultimately not helpful. Canada was and is built on a very ugly foundation and some people will have a lot of trouble accepting that, but the people need to unite as a collective to make it a better place, not polarise ourselves (i.e. like the US).

So then we need a non-corporate portal for news. Centralising the power of information distribution with massive companies that are driven solely by profit is not the way.

Why should Google have control over the propagation of news? Everyone can still go to the individual news organisations' website...yes Google consolidated everything into one portal, but maybe it's time to go back to something less centralised, which isn't under the control of a single corporate entity, i.e. the way the web was originally intended to work.

The core of Android is actually open source...if you install an aftermarket Android ROM like Lineage OS, you can avoid the closed source Google components (for the most part).

It could almost be considered an essential service at this point and regardless of whether it's truly "essential", it's something which is very widely used, and therefore powerfully affects the people who use it and the communities they're a part of. Therefore, ideally, it should be constructed responsibly.

Reddit is a capitalist endeavour like any other and once the venture capital runs out and it needs to be profitable on its own, the users/community become (even more) secondary to maximizing value for shareholders. This current controversy is just the inevitable result of that and is a great time to take note of the reality of the situation (which is nothing new) and hopefully the fediverse alternatives will continue to gain traction.

My opinion is that these exploitative social networks need to die, they're not good for people and their profit motive will always be at odds with what's good for the actual people using them.