High-profile lawsuits against Google and Amazon have revealed Silicon Valley’s vise grip on our lives.

We Finally Have Proof That the Internet Is Worse::High-profile lawsuits against Google and Amazon have revealed Silicon Valley’s vise grip on our lives.

  • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    50·
    9 months ago

    In recent years, it’s been harder to love the internet, a miracle of connectivity that feels ever more bloated, stagnant, commercialized, and junkified. We are just now starting to understand the specifics of this transformation—the true influence of Silicon Valley’s vise grip on our lives. It turns out that the slow rot we might feel isn’t just in our heads, after all.

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    • iopq@lemmy.worldEnglish
      252·
      9 months ago

      The Internet is getting more decentralized, with better alternatives for big corporate services

      • swnt@feddit.deEnglish
        35·
        9 months ago

        it’s it though?

        in our Fediverse bubble yes.

        but so many average people just don’t care.

        • Infynis@midwest.socialEnglish
          17·
          9 months ago

          They care, they just don’t know about the alternatives, and most don’t have the time or knowledge to research them, especially with the biggest companies doing their best to mystify technology as a whole, and reduce user experience to a carefully cultivated all inclusive proprietary prison

          • Zak@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7·
            9 months ago

            They care in the sense that they want [Facebook|Youtube|Twitter|Instagram] without the enshittification. When told about alternatives with some promise that aren’t exactly that, they often don’t have the mental energy to explore.

          • r3df0x ✡️✝☪️@7.62x54r.ruEnglish
            5·
            9 months ago

            Correct. No one can use something that they don’t know about.

            Right now Lemmy is really best for centralized populated instances that have a similar experience to being on Reddit. Federation is a bonus. There are a lot of problems with trying to access content on other instances. Weirdly, the name of the sub is not shown in the URL for posts. Someone might be able to create an alternate web client, but that adds another layer of complexity for people who just want to run the site.

            The main problem with federation is that there’s no “site” that people know to go to.

          • LogarithmicCamel@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            9 months ago

            I think they care the other way around. Many people admire big corporations and either work for one or wish they could. Just think about Apple fans as one example. So if you tell them there is Reddit, which is run by a company for profit, and there is Lemmy, which are a bunch of servers run by computer nerds for the joy of it, this will actively draw many to Reddit.

        • iopq@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          I tried the Fediverse just a few years ago and it was a ghost town. There was no Fediverse bubble because nobody was here