Ignore OP’s weird question, the book looks really cool

Hanlon’s Razor seems much more apt, suggesting OP’s incompetence rather than malice

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His recent monologues are decent too, like the ones on why AI is bullshit and why there are no ethical billionaires

The last 100+ pages of his book are about solutions

He just published a major new book entitled Enshittification

TIL the feds think Fortnite doesn’t have text chat

Rest in power

Missing the forest for the trees

That’s not what being a Luddite means

Cory Doctorow refers to this as the Anatevka problem.

Matt Stoller had a nice writeup recently in his monopoly newsletter BIG about how we got into the current mess. TL;DR: basically financialization (prioritizing stock price over innovation, like at Boeing) and a lack of antitrust enforcement as a previously competitive market got monopolized (see chart below)

Never root for a monopoly over at least some semblance of competition

It looks like it was a coalition of groups? Why shit on solidarity unnecessarily?

r > g

Even if you’re paying for the product, you’re still the product

From what I can tell, Bluesky is much more demanding in terms of the technical challenge of doing this on your own, and part of the issue is that some of the key tools to make this easier don’t really exist yet, making it much harder than setting up a Mastodon instance for example, so part of what they want to do is bridge that gap as well as stand up more independent servers.

Free Our Feeds is trying to make this happen

Now the real question is: Will it also let me bypass UK age-gating on the web?