Post #2224602
2026-05-05 02:50 UTC
It's effectively an experience as a second-class citizen @karen@floss.social. The rhetoric asserts that proprietary protocols and systems are freely chosen. But for those who opt out, who choose #SoftwareFreedom, we find *our* lives burdened by the proprietary systems *others* chose without our consent.
And those who accept the shackles of proprietary systems, don't bear the burden of finding those alternate paths because everything assumes you've put those shackles on, and is unreliable if you don't.
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@hweimer@fediscience.org 2026-05-05 06:38
@bignose@fosstodon.org @karen@floss.social I think it's rather those who are subject to mass surveillance and enshittification of proprietary apps who are second-class citizen. Guess who is also not affected by this? Rich people, because they can afford to pay actual humans instead of using apps. It's called "analog privilege": https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4528278 Of course, there's a price to pay (sometimes even literally) when you want to avoid all this, but that's kind of the point of being rich: Pricing out all the others so you can have to good stuff for yourself.