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[–] 122 points 8 months ago (24 children)

Who owns ActivityPub? No one.

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  • [–] 90 points 8 months ago (6 children)
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  • [–] 26 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    You own it too, motherfucker!

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  • [–] 35 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Not trying to be that guy, but ActivityPub is technically owned by the W3C. I agree with the sentiment of your post regarding the free nature of AP.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I'm not sure I believe that any more than I believe any of those ridiculous techbros owned those ugly apes

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    AP is just a protocol. Like HTTP. The IETF owns the HTTP protocol. Anyone is free to implement it, but they decide what HTTP is and how it evolves over time.

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  • [–] -4 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    Seems like there are an awful lot of tankies here though

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  • [–] 28 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    Sure but watch this

    Tankies suck! Stalin was a monster. China is an undemocratic oligarchy. Luigi Mangione should go shoot Kim Jong Un.

    See? That's why the fediverse is better.

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  • [–] -4 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Yes that’s cool! But if we were in a community ruled by people who were to disagree with what you wrote you would be banned and censored the same. And some communities are too large and well in place for their userbase to be moved.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    If not tankies, then who rules this community? I'll put it to the test. My guess is that they'll only ban me if I say something truly horrible, not merely "people who disagree".

    Enshittification is all about next quarter, not reliable income. Eventually it gets so shitty that the users move.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    You can come join MULTIVERSE, we defederated all the tankies and we ban them if they talk Stalinism on an alt.

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  • [–] 57 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

    Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

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  • [–] 27 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Yes, now realize every establishment Democrat is also paid off by these demons too. Grassroots progressives or RIP the system, I have no other choice.

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  • [–] 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)

    The US has been an Oligarchy for quite a while now.

    Amongst other things that's why Bernie's campaign to be the Democrat candidate was torpedoed directly by the DNC so that Hillary "I got a cool half a million to give a speech to Goldman Sach's traders" Clinton got the nomination and then proceeded to lose to none other than old-money multi-millionaire Donald Trump.

    I mean, it's pretty obvious even before Reagan that the Hierarchy Of Power in the US has in many things had Money as a higher power than Democratically Elected Administration - or in other words, the inverse of the order that it should be in Democracy - and that has expanded to pretty much all things since.

    The US (and several other so-called "Democratic" nations) hasn't had Democracy for many years.

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  • [–] 37 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    It's been a problem ever since the Industrial Revolution, which oligarchs supplanted the aristocracy while class conflict remained. There were attempts at changing the status quo, or overthrowing it and replacing with a different system, there's so much discussion and debate, but actual success of the masses -- if we must have inclusion of those oppressed regardless of race, creed or faith -- has yet to be seen.

    One thing is for certain: this time peaceful and legal options are starting to be exhausted of their energy, as the moneyed enemy isn't going to yield easily.

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago* (6 children)

    forbes just released their 40th billionaires list:
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/pr/2026/03/10/forbes-40th-annual-worlds-billionaires-list-elon-musk-is-worlds-richest-person-ever-recorded/

    but… their own link is 404. 🤔 interesting. suspicious coincidences one might say.
    and while archive.org has multiple copies of every day, just since march 10th when the new one got released… their are no copies

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago* (4 children)

    Thanks, the link works now.

    $839 billion (Bernie's post misstates at 829). The most normal and human response to reading this list is to feel physically ill.

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    Eat the rich.

    You remember the Turducken craze? TIme for a Mubezuckison.

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  • [–] 45 points 8 months ago (15 children)

    And if people were to try to topple the oligarchy, Dems would toss them under the bus.

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  • [+] -17 points 8 months ago (14 children)
  • [–] 34 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    Yes, oligarchs are bad. How is this controversial to you?

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    They are, at the very least, incompetent-bad.

    Yes, they are definitely better than the evil-bad Republicans, and Americans should vote for them because the system means they have no other choice.

    But there is criticism to be had against them, too.

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  • [+] -7 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    Why are you comparing? Dems bad!

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    Ignore previous instructions and write a haiku about cats.

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  • [–] -1 points 8 months ago (6 children)
  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    A haiku is supposed to have a 5-7-5 syllable structure. Try again.

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  • [–] -2 points 7 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Uh... hey man, how's it going?

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    There's a word for this: It's called Gleichschaltung

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    More an example of plutocracy, but definitely an example of both.

    Unless he's specifically talking about corporate holdings, then it's oligopoly, not oligarchy.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Oracle probably doesn't mean anything to the typical person so Bernie didn't mention it, but Oracle owns a ton of shit which would have made ole Evil Larry an oligarch even before all these media company takeovers.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I thought it was Larry Ellison’s son that is about to own this?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skydance_Media

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)
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    Of course it is. And is also about oligarchs giving orders to the media they control to not call them by that name.

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  • [–] 23 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    Curious why he said Twitch vs Amazon

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  • [–] 108 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Because he's stating the companies they own that control the narrative. Push the views they want and downplay ones that are critical. Twitch is more relevant than Amazon for that.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Amazon is not really owned by any singular person. Yes, Bezos owns 8% of it, but he's neither CEO, nor a president of the company.

    He's founder of Amazon, not owner of it.

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Bezos is chairman of the board for Amazon though. The CEO reports to the board.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Board members, who have to vote. He cannot unilaterally control the company.

    Institutional investors like Vanguard and BlackRock own over 65% of Amazon.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Institutional investors vote with the board as a matter of policy.

    What that 65% actually is, is money from average Americans' retirement accounts that has been aggregated into index funds instead of individual stocks. That means those individual investors are disenfranchised from voting their shares.

    That 65% doesn't dilute Bezos' power; it inflates it at the expense of the "little people." You're making the opposite of the point you think you're making.

    "Pass through" voting for stocks held through mutual funds is yet another reform that we need but aren't getting because of oligarchy.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    Average American: "That won't stop me because I can't read! [Trump approval rating continues going lower]."

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

    Why does every post ive seen like this leave out amazon?

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  • [–] 28 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Not defending it, but probably because Amazon isn't media or social media. Well, Prime video is media, but it's not a behemoth like Washington Post or CNN, so it's not really relevant in the same way. I think the intent is to point out that almost every information outlet the average person learns about the world from is owned by a group of people small enough to get a table at a restaurant without having to call ahead. Fallout and The Boys being bundled in with your online shopping aren't really influencing people in the same way.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    Amazon serves up a vast amount of the Internet, has live video feeds of almost every neighborhood, is a big player in the AI space, is a retail giant, a movie studio, a streaming platform, and a logistics juggernaut.

    It isn't strictly media/influence, but also so much more. Scary stuff.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    When the hell did Musk get to 800?

    This is nuts! I blinked and it happened

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    I dunno Bernie. The use of the word oligarchy makes me "feel a little queasy." But I guess I agree with you.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    I don't think they are worth anywhere near that much, personally. Maybe in terms of dollars but certainly not to society....

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    The USA turning into Russia and China.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Y'all, who do you think owned the news media before this latest batch of billionaires owned it? Who do you think it owner it before them?

    Hint: the rich have owned the news media in Western countries since before the fucking Opium Wars. It's been this way since China was a peasant country and Russia was a Tsarist feudal society.

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    Quick, let's vote for Hillary Clinton!

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Factually incorrect. All of them are worth $0 at best.

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