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Bruh, reddit was created in search of capital. It grew and attracted communities in search of capital.
Reddit wouldn’t have existed otherwise.
Bruh, reddit was created in search of capital. It grew and attracted communities in search of capital.
Reddit wouldn’t have existed otherwise.
I know about Aaron Schwartz. His beliefs didn’t change the fact that Reddit had major VC backing and wouldn’t have existed without it.
It’s really not a hard concept to grasp.
Lemmy would not have existed without Reddit. Lemmy is a clone of reddit!
Plus reddit put all the work intro attracting users and communities in the first place, before driving them to places like lemmy.
I meant the platform more than the company.
It’s my favorite format for social media… that’s why I’m on lemmy.
I learned that “capitalism” is an economic system, not a system of government.
So you could have a socialist state that funds essentials like healthcare and transportation through taxes with a market (capitalist) economy.
It just wouldn’t have existed at all without VC funding.
Lemmy exists now because Reddit already existed, built the model link sharing site, and over years of ad revenue and VC money, convinced communities to gather there and then convinced those same communities to move to lemmy
So I understand total capitalism as an entirely market driven economy with no government influence
And total communism as an entirely planned and government prescribed economy
And socialism as some of the economy is market driven and some government planned.
I may be wrong, but I don’t see socialism and capitalism as hard opposites.
I see capitalism and communism are like hard opposites with socialism somewhere in between.
Yeah but capitalism also made reddit great, before making it terrible.
There’s a balance in there somewhere. What we got ain’t it tho.
That’s nice, dear
TFW you realize not everybody accesses lemmy the same way
Yeah, but only if you agree with the other people who are complaining loudly, otherwise it’s hardly worth the time.
That’s not true. IRC is a client-server system. Your messages go to a server and are “relayed” to clients.
It’s not a p2p messaging system
Honestly can’t tell if that’s sarcasm. Look up “tracking pixels” if you want to see how not private the internet is, regardless of ur search engine
Dude, calm down wtf?
Also like… just using DuckDuckGo doesn’t mean u have privacy online…
Your DS? What’re you 30?
…cries in back pain
There’s a chip shortage. Most people just use web based apps, so stay on their phones / cheap laptops Enthusiasts usually just build their own machines. Everything is more expensive. The list goes on
Everything is art if you think about it enough and make it sound pretentious.
This image is a sly commentary on the current technology trends juxtaposed with memes of the past. Showing how technology can breathe new life into outdated trends or some shit.
OP out here just trying to get upvotes.