Anti-Corporate Movement
This community is the first one on lemmy of its kind. It sits between the idea of anarchism/anti-capitalism and left leaning economic policy.
Our goal is to make people aware of the dangers of corporate control, its influence on governments and people as well as the small but steady abrasion of empathy around the world indirectly caused by it.
Current topics this includes but is not limited to:
- Meta's entry into the fediverse
- Game companies putting gambling mechanics in childrens games
- Embracer groups buyout and closing of smaller game studios
- IP trolls destroying small companies and keeping progress back for profit
Feel free to debate this but beware, corporate rhetoric is not welcome here. If you have arguments, bring them on. If its rhetoric trying to defend the evil actions of corporations, we will know and you will go.
Our declared goal so far is to have all companies and individuals worldwide capped at 999 mil USD in all assets, including ownership of other companies, sister companies and marital assets. The reason for this is that companies (and individuals) are not supposed to resemble small(?) countries with a single leader(-board) and shareholder primacy. Thats why we feel like they must be kept in check indefinitely.
But companies will just wander off The argument that large companies will just wander off is valid, which we embrace. We dont need microsoft, apple, google, amazon and other trillion dollar companies. There are small competitors being kept small and driven into brankruptcy by anti competitive behavior of these giants or simply bought up and closed. If starbucks left tomorrow, we would not have an issue with this.
But then we have x little microsofts that all belong to the same person(s) If in fact nobody was allowed to accumulate more than 999 mil in assets, they would not be able to own all these. And like defending agains burglary, it is not about complete defence but time and effort. You only have to keep the thief occupied long enough for them to be caught, give up or make a mistake.
But these giants have tons of IP which would then limit our growth Thats another topic we must touch on. We will (only this one time) take a page out of russias playbook and demand that IP of non complying companies (assets over 999 mil USD) will be declared invalid, which opens them up to be copied.
But then they will "live" in one country that doesnt accept this Correct, and they should be taken into custody the moment they enter the airspace of a country that supports this act.
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You are correct sir or ma'am
On the other hand, there is this:
Up until this exact story, I was of the opinion that "honestly what's the big deal, like what can they really do."
After reading that hooking Threads into the spam-engines that so thoroughly fucked up Facebook was a big priority, but letting Threads people read Fediverse replies is still on the we'll-get-to-it list, I am for the first time of the opinion "Oh. I see. You guys were right. Everyone needs to steer pretty clear of this."
I'm having a hard time replying to this without sounding like a shill for them, but fediverse integration is still in beta. Full fediverse integration is under active development, and that takes time. Flipboard is also working on fediverse integration, and it's taking an equally long time to get up and running. The API is undoubtedly being developed by a separate team, and is also probably a significantly easier task to tackle.
I also wouldn't say access to an API is what destroyed Facebook either though.
I get that, but in what world do you release a feature incomplete beta for a messaging platform integration where the "reading other people's messages" part is one of the features you're waiting until later in the cycle to develop?
And I'm not saying API access killed Facebook, I'm saying bot-scheduled inorganic content coming in a flood into everyone's feed even though literally 0 people want it there is what killed Facebook. And that by specifically calling out that stuff as what they want to bring to Threads (above and ahead of reading the Mastodon people's messages), they're showing that their priorities are so toxic that no good can come of interacting with them. It's the types of posting they want to create that is the problem, not the API that let those postings come into existence.
It's a public beta, so by the nature of things it's going to be incomplete. Flipboard is doing the same thing with one-way federation and only federating certain profiles during the test period.
They also didn't say they want bot-scheduled inorganic content coming in a flood into everyone’s feed though, they said they're releasing an API. An API could be used by a developer with ill-intentions to automate spam posting, but the alternative is to not have an API and never support third-party apps.
I think we're gonna have to agree to disagree on what they're saying they want