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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An alternative chat protocol. You can self host it or join other self hosted instances, same as lemmy and mastodon.
It works well and comes with encryption, group chat, video and voice chat and maybe a dozen different clients. No single company can shut you down in opposition to discord.
Check out https://matrix.org for more info.
The best clients I know of are fluffychat and element.
Edit: matrix also has bridges to discord so you wont likely loose your friends from discord. The difference to an alternative discord client is that it runs on a completely different protocol with no chance for discord to shut down your matrix account since its not on discord.
Does matrix have voice channels where I can share screen with sound on wayland?
No idea mate. It uses jitsi and it has screensharing.
But honestly, using discord for this feature is like using leaded gasoline because your new car is special.
I get it, its popular and works but its not a good choice if you want privacy and/or freedom imo.
Feel free to disagree though. :)
Yes, but it need a little bit of work. https://github.com/element-hq/element-desktop/issues/853