• toynbee@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I think you’ve just neatly summarized, uh …

    … The world (such as we’ve incentivized it, anyway).

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      1 day ago

      Sadly, yes.

      What it comes down to is that any product or service with a profit incentive will inevitably betray you, no matter how good or how well-intentioned it started out.

      Our only saviour is open source, self hosting, and federation.

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        1 day ago

        Sadly, yes.

        What it comes down to is that any product or service with a profit incentive will inevitably betray you, no matter how good or how well-intentioned it started out.

        Our only saviour is open source, self hosting, and federation.

        It’s why ownership rather than rental is the model we should all individually be pursuing.