• Snapz@beehaw.orgEnglish
    255·
    2 years ago

    Also, remember the threat that Reddit presented to capitalism’s status quo around the height of antiwork and GME.

    If Reddit falls, it will be on purpose (by the people running/funding Reddit. Same as the 180 of Twitter as a somewhat legitimate forum - Twitter being a key organizing tool during the Arab Spring (with the Saudis being the largest investor in Twitter behind elon of course).

    Billionaires do each other favors to keep the class war in balance.

    • Killarny@beehaw.orgEnglish
      183·
      2 years ago

      This is an insightful take that I’ve not seen discussed as much as I think it should be. People like to make fun of billionaires for being apparently stupid, but there’s more going on here when the stupid decisions of these billionaires are resulting in directly destroying tools that have become increasingly and specifically used for anticapitalist actions.

      Hence also why Meta is so interested in getting in on the fediverse in whatever capacity they can; they want to influence and direct the conversations of the working people in opposition to them, and eventually they’ll try to destroy this too.