• Brustadnrift@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Man, this is depressing. While I wasn’t “raised online” since I was raised on dialup and couldn’t block the phone line all that long.

    I still remember when google was the new kid on the block and the general feeling about them across early Internet forums.

    Microsoft was evil because they copied everybody else’s stuff and wanted to charge for it. Apple was clueless making expensive junk. Sun was a darling for a while at least until they started pulling shit.

    Enter mother-fucking-Google. Ethical. Honest. Not evil. Smart. Supporting open source. And on top of all that, FREE to use. Like Microsoft wants to charge you for hotmail if you want an inbox > 2MB? Fucking EVIL!!! Google is ethical because they are completely free!!! And I hear they are working on an email service too. Google just wants to shepherd the internet and protect it from companies like Microsoft, Apple, and AOL.

    Oh Google.

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      1 year ago

      A company that survives long enough eventually gets turned to the dark $ide. Greedy asshats will always ruin a good thing for their own benefit

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        Any company that becomes publicly traded gets turned to the dark side. That’s the factor that does it because they have a legal requirement to do everything they can to maximize profits.

        Trying to sustain perpetual growth will always lead to companies fucking over their customers and employees.

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          While I feel this is true there are so few privately owned companies that prove this as fact. Holds breath that steam never fucks over its customers

  • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    All of this led to me ditching all of those (except YouTube, this is without a real alternative due to the content exclusively hosted there) and starting to self-host my stuff and joining the Fediverse.

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    1 year ago

    This is what neoliberalism does. It privatizes everything, including the individual. Everyone is a product. Everyone has a “brand”.