It totally took me by surprise to see him out there picketing with the workers.

I think this is why net neutrality is so important. Back in the days the electromagnetic spectrum was not as heavily regulated as it is now. Technically anyone with the technical know how could set up a broadcasting station. Then CBS, ABC, NBC all got together and did exactly what these companies are doing. They banded together to make it harder for the average person to get access to technology. This is their primariy goal. To give their companies priority at the network level (seconds matter) and also, most likely what they want is to 1. Find ways for their content to be regulated differently and be sold as network packages 2. Probably allow their content to be delivered through means that require people pay THEIR ISPs. Now, i will be honest. I have not read the article but i knlw this has been the intended goal for many years.

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The only thing more pathetic than Musk are his fans that would defend him no matter what idiotic thing he says or does.

Wondering if reddit or Musk are behind the attacks?

The fact that they're bringing this back in a month other than April is pathetic. I don't know what species is worse. You don't see them trying to fuck each other over for a goddamn percentage.

Rich people are so disconnected from reality. I mean, when I tell you disconnected people really don't understand. The best way to put it is ths: we have a hard time intuitively understanding the vast distances in the universe. Musk is like that. He is a person with such level of disconnect. He truly lives in his own reality, most likely because a man like him does not understand the concept of poverty or struggling to make ends meet. The narcissism displayed in that interview in which he says that "if speaking his mind means losing money then so be it" should tell you how this man truly lives in an alternative reality. I am so glad most of us realized the kind of scum he is.

There are 2 types of people in this world. The ones that like crocs and the ones that do not like crocs. I think it's a very very clear definition into the psyche of humans

Contributors should be rewarded. What kind of contributions though? Video? Isn't that Youtube? Articles? Ok. I mean, if they are really good articles that really give insight into important information, great!. Art? Sure. They deserve it. This is the thing. Once it becomes "commercial". Then the forums will become safespaces. The whole thing becomes just a giant market and I can see reddit "demonetizing" depending on the content. That will turn reddit into something entirely different to Lemmy. And you know what? That's alright. The internet is big enough where reddit can coexist with the fediverse. But this is actually a good thing. Because then, lemmy and systems like this can become community oriented. A platform where people can discuss without concerns of what a corporation will or won't do. A place where the value lies on our contributions as a community in the very same way reddit was in its beginnings.

Reddit becoming a source of income for contributors shouldn't be a bad thing. It simply turns it into something entirely different to what we saw back in the early 2000s

We need to learn more about the exploit. Lemmy essentially runs on donations, we all need to support this site. I have a lot of faith in lemmy. I am a reddit refugee and i think it is reminiscent of the early days of reddit and not the pos that it became.

I think it's an excellent reddit replacement and it gets better every time i check. More and more people posting. I am also using Mastodon. I am all for the fediverse tbh. I don't want my data to be collected by one large corporation anymore.

In my opinion we need to make a distinction between social networks and aggregators with forum-like experiences. Reddit is easily replaceable because sharing links is like the easiest thing to do. I started using lemmy and not planning on using reddit again. So far i have abandoned all major social media. Only use whatsapp. The internet is rotten right now, however there are so many amazing things that are not social media that we are yet to discover and for those looking for information not people, the internet still has a lot to open. Social media is a cesspool.