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When you watch a hockey game, and your team is down by 3 in the 3rd, with 10 minutes left on the clock......is a comeback possible? Absolutely. But you have to pay attention to the quality of play. If your team is consistantly getting quality chances that miss by inches, sure. It's entirely plausible that one goes in, starts a rally, and you score 2 more in 9 minutes.
But if the score is 3-0, and your team is lazily drifting on the ice, barely getting puck time, and then abandoning the puck through sloppy passes, and weak shot rebounds, then that 3-0 is everybit as intimidating as it sounds.
And right now I don't see an environment where society is hungrily fighting for the puck. I don't see people demanding an alternative. I don't see people making any progress towards even trying to dismantle big vorporate interests and control.
I see a public that's complacent. I see a public lazily saying they wish they could get rid of twitter, without finishing the thought process of how to do that.
It would be like saying "Linux has more features and more privacy than windows, therefore it existing and having an audience will mean it will kill windows!"
But forgetting to take into account that just because you're passionate, doesn't mean anybody else gives a shit. If they did, they'd already have switched. And the amount of people who have switched aren't even enough to be worth mentioning the platform exists.
Im not talking about lemmy being generally critical of billionaires, i mean the platform itself and its use is directly fighting against billionaire control of social media, because its social media they cant control.