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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Delete your facebook products.

If you know someone who works at facebook, try to convince them to leave.

If you see someone who's in a leadership position at Facebook bleeding out, perhaps after a car accident because their brakes were sabotaged, let them die.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago

The Network State is just feudalism updated to accommodate a new set of vile and toxic elitist shitheads.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

They are afraid

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

Just another reason to abandon social networks owned by big tech companies and moving to decentralized open source social networks.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The idea isn't necessarily tied to oligarchy or fascism or anything like that. It originates in the early ideals of the Internet where people hoped its anarchic energy could be a force for freedom. Things have not really shaken out like that, e.g. the net ended up being dominated by tech giants rather than a profileration of small websites, and China's Great Firewall showed how states can put swathes of the internet under their thumb after all. But some of us still buy into some of that spirit (though the Network State idea itself is unrealistic). Heck, Lemmy and the Fediverse are a part of that.

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