avidamoeba

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago (4 children)

The difference between for-profit and not-for-profit firms is not whether one makes money and the other one does not. It's what's done with that money. The difference is whether the net income is given to the firm's major shareholders or kept within the firm.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is that enforced by encryption or does it rely on federated instances to respect the visibility settings of such posts?

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"We’re under attack from the front left and front right. Respond accordingly"

slow-clap

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 35 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They don't need the very best to make profit for a very long time, especially in a friendly regulatory regime. Check IBM for reference.

They own the social media market and have enough capital to acquire any plausible competitor, as have done in the past.

Losing top talent is only a significant price to pay if the firm or its competitors are still building new stuff that affects their bottom line. Meta is happy raking in the social media-ad profits. Google is happy raking in the search-ad profits. They're all busy getting more money out of the markets they've monopolized, not competing.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 72 points 11 months ago (1 children)

LMAO, employees are about to find out why a union would be a good idea. Gotta speedrun growing class consciousness.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 37 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Well to me that doesn't fit the "it's default" description.

While looking at that, I couldn't see lemmy.world on that page. I found that join-lemmy.org now excludes instances with >30% user share in order to dampen centralisation. Which makes sense I guess.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 26 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I don't see it on that page. Going to "See all servers" lists "lemmy.ml" at a random position in the list. Looking at "Join a server" and using "Generic" or "All topics" also lists it in a random position. Am I missing something?

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 18 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Default where?

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 19 points 11 months ago (12 children)

Wow that change is from June 2023.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 12 points 11 months ago

This sounds like a solution looking for a problem. We know how to build green infrastructure. Many countries have done it. China has shown how it's done, many other countries have done a lot too, albeit using Chinese inputs.

Also if your solution does not allow for debt, it will be unnecessarily slow in the rate of growth. Building green infrastructure is a great example for positive use of debt.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 50 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Weird. I thought XPS was a pretty well known brand.

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