Genuinely curious as I’m new to all of this, why would it matter? Isn’t that the whole point of the fediverse? If their spyware app interfacing with it is what gets the casual users into it who already have Meta’s spyware installed, you can still use the fediverse from whatever service you prefer, right?

I 100% agree they could and should, but I don’t think it should be made their responsibility. You also wouldn’t have to tax very drastically, because replacing the healthcare system with something like Medicare for All would cost less than the overall cost of our current bloated system, so the money could just get reallocated and the tax increases would just shift the responsibility slightly to the wealthiest of us. It should be popular with the “party of small business” and “lowering tax for the middle class” since it would cost businesses and workers both less money for better outcomes, but they only pretend to have principles when it can be leveraged for power. Health insurance is a fucking scam, and the fact that we can’t unanimously agree companies making money extorting us with our lives aren’t beneficial to society is bleak.

Exactly, the venture capital is finally drying up and the services can’t figure out how to sell anything to enough people to recoup their investments. Why reddit has to pull out third party apps and shove ads and reddit gold down our throat, why Elon has to shill Twitter blue and cap our view counts. Facebook and Google services exist because their business model is selling ads foundationally and not selling services. It doesn’t matter that their socials are losing money because it’s always been a branch of their advertising business and not the other way around.

I don’t think everyone should be forced to give away everything they don’t need to survive, I just think (in America’s case) if you have enough wealth for several generations to live in luxury while our people are dying from inaccessible medicine and healthcare and more than half of our country has no savings living paycheck to paycheck, we’ve massively failed as a society to provide basic needs for our people. You could fund universal healthcare with just a tax on billionaires and they wouldn’t have to change their lifestyle at all. If I had enough money that I lost 90% of it and I literally couldn’t notice the difference, I’d be full of guilt every night watching people die because they rationed their insulin.

Fuck u/spez

Excited to watch it grow and hope the API comes soon! At least the webapp is fairly nice in the mean time.

I used basically all of them, Sync was amazing and I’m super stoked for Sync for Lemmy/kbin support once it’s possible