2024: The year we discovered that all of those centralized and cloud services you love are owned by assholes who will exploit your dependence on a whim to suit their needs.
2025: Bring back self-hosted PHPBB.
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I'll start with examples I can think of off the top of my head. You chime in whenever you're ready.
Matt M, losing his shit and decided that automattic, you know, the company responsible for the well-being of wordpress is just... no longer gonna do that. https://digitalcxo.com/article/matt-mullenweg-automattics-ceo-seems-bound-and-determined-to-wreck-wordpress/
Bezos decides he doesn't want Wapo to endorse Kamala https://www.npr.org/2024/10/25/nx-s1-5165353/washington-post-presidential-endorsement-trump-harris
Zuckerberg runs back moderation on Meta platforms. https://www.theverge.com/24339131/meta-content-moderation-fact-check-zuckerberg-texas
Elon has fucked X into the ground. I can't be more specific than that, because there's just a trail of fuck ups that began when he took over that ended in the culmination of gaining control of the votes through algorithmic manipulation of twitter as a whole. This article is just a microcosm of a whole lot more: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformation/musk-election-misinformation-x-officials-twitter-voting-rcna176938
Oh yeah, and while TikTok's privacy policies were a dumpster fire, you can be sure that Musk or Zuckerberg, probably fuckin' both were the ones lobbying for them to either divest and sell US operations to them or get out.
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cloudflare has had a nazi problem for a while.
substack has had a nazi problem for a while.
Hiding the condemnation of hate speech behind "But everyone deserves free speech on the internet" is their bread and butter.
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here's some stuff on cloudflare hosting hate sites
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hate-watch/cloudflare-optimizing-content-delivery-least-48-hate-sites-across-europe/
and some evidence substack are bootlickers
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/substack-extremism-nazi-white-supremacy-newsletters/676156/
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