2026-04-11 03:33 UTC
”The hectobillionaires have begun their final assault on the last, best parts of what's still open, and likely won't rest until they've either brought all of the independent and noncommercial parts of the Internet under their control, or destroyed them.”
@anildash on the existential threat to the open web:
https://www.anildash.com/2026/03/27/endgame-open-web/
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@jblsmith@sigmoid.social 2026-04-12 04:54
@fox @anildash Hectobillionaires? Sounds good to me: heck to billionaires!
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@elfburgerman@mastodon.social 2026-04-12 06:31
@fox @anildash Users are not addicted to social media. Media that are social don't addict people. Adtech does. Stigmatisation can motivate people to choose alternatives to the big tech. Please stop calling quasi-social adtech 'social media' and start calling it what it is. After all, language shapes the way we think, and the way we think shapes our future.