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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Lukewarm counter-take: That non-commercial internet is still out there.

As long as there's nerds, there's going to be nerds building stuff for the fun of it. Building your Lemmys, your Fediverses, your Geminis etc..

There is definitely more legislation now, dissuading some percentage of nerds, but we also have a lot more nerds...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Even places like lemmy or mastodon aren't safe anymore. Everything that is public can be, and is, data mined by some corporation. There will be bot accounts or paid people pushing their agenda. And several other things.

It's not a technical problem. We can have places that are better than the average, but the corporations will still put their tentacles in.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Even the non-commercial spaces are commercial. I’ve seen a bunch of thing disguised ads on here already. The fediverse is no different than the rest of the net. The big corps are still monitoring everything.

Every “nerd” I meet now wants out asap. The only ones who don’t seem to be pushing blockchain or AI. The tech sphere I loved is well and truly gone. The people are so profit driven nothing else can matter.