Do you? Control over the medium is far more powerful than being a mere user of that medium.
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krunklom@lemmy.zip â¨3⊠â¨days⊠agoYou understand the difference between a medium and the content on that medium right?
Thatâs a rhetorical question since you clearly donât.
hark@lemmy.world â¨3⊠â¨days⊠ago
UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.com â¨3⊠â¨days⊠ago
Corporate control over an algorithm that decides who is served what content is a platform-agnostic tool of power over society. Weâre seeing that danger manifest in old and new ways every single day. That lever of power allows whomever owns that particular medium to push whatever content they like. That is the entire motivation behind and purpose of the Fediverse and other decentralization efforts.
Zuck and muskrat separate populations, push propaganda and influence discussions at an unprecedented level. The control a single corporation, a single authoritarian point of power has over such vast swathes of population dwarfs the propagandic power of Goebbles and Stalin by a couple orders of magnitude.