Post #1479466
2026-01-04 11:59 UTC
@netopwibby you can still choose to use the right platforms. They are still out there.
in that sense I feel like a lot of today's negative experience comes from people blindly following corporate advertisement, and having an incessant need to go with 'the big standard things'.
If people dared to actually reject what they hated more, if people actually sought alternatives rather than pathologically clinging to what they dislike, maybe they could actually fix this abusive relationship for once.
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@bunny@mk.absturztau.be 2026-01-04 13:55
@anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz @netopwibby@social.coop It's not so trivial. Ever heard of tyranny of the defaults? That's the reason why Google pays billions to be the default search engine. Ever heard of network effect and customer lock-in? They make it nearly impossible to get away once trapped in one of the 'big standard things' towards which people are pushed by default. Or as someone put it when your proposed solution starts with "If all people just ..." it's not a solution. :abunhd: