The slaves don’t own capital because they are the capital!

Nowhere in the definition of capitalism does it require that everyone owns capital; in fact it’s much more the opposite.

Yup. If we’re talking regulations then regulations on how much corporations can donate to politicians should be top of the list (and ideally that amount should be zero), but obviously both the politicians and the corporations like that donations are totally allowed, making it difficult to pass such things…

Regulations are indeed an important part of managing our system as it is, but they’re fundamentally a bandaid to the problems of capitalism.

You gotta catch the corporations doing a bad thing and then tell them not to do it, meanwhile they’re buying politicians to fight against you on it. And it still doesn’t stop them from committing actions that are horribly unethical and extremely damaging to our society and to the environment, they just tone it down a bit at best, or occasionally they’ll have to put a small fraction of their money into a lawsuit without actually changing their behavior.

But the system also makes it so that when people act purely selfishly for money, that it results in good outcomes for everyone.

Why do you think this??

Look at all the constant environmental disasters and harmful products that happen because corporations did the math and determined that paying a few million to lawsuits every once in a while is cheaper than being more careful. “Voting with your wallet” does not work because the big corporations undercut the competition and bombard us with advertising to ensure they will win no matter what.

Hell, most of us are on here because Reddit started doing scummy things in the name of money, and we’re a tiny fraction of their userbase; Reddit is still unfortunately doing pretty much fine. Is that the best outcome for everyone?

And don’t forget that there are a lot of regulations passed in the last hundred years that were necessary because corporations were doing stuff like dumping so many chemicals into our waterways that rivers would constantly catch fire. This is what happens with unfettered capitalism.

Yeah deleting seems kinda broken at the moment. Which probably isn’t great…

That’s fairly accurate, yeah.

Yeah I can’t blame them for posting content. It’s not ideal that 169 and shitposting take up 80% of my feed, but it’s better than nothing, right?

I promise you that anything that says Tyrannosaurus was a direct ancestor of or the closest relative to chickens is misunderstanding the science, probably for clickbait because T. rex is a well known and eye-catching dinosaur name to put in the title, or just quoting one of the other incorrect articles about it. Birds evolved in the Jurassic about a hundred million years before T. rex, so T. rex definitely couldn’t have evolved into them. It was wiped out by the asteroid before it could evolve into anything else.

I don’t mean to ruin the joke here, but I hate to see misinformation go uncorrected.

Iirc chickens are descendents of T-Rexes

Well, not literally.

This is literally exactly what I’m doing too!

I’ve grown fond of Connect’s UI pretty quickly. However, ever since they fixed whatever was going on with Jerboa recently, it’s actually been working very well, really smooth and responsive. So I’m on Jerboa right now.

Well, the main thing is that they’re killing BaconReader. I’ve used BaconReader for about a decade now, it just isn’t the same without it.

And then when I came over here to try Lemmy out, I found it’s pretty nice here. Especially with all the protest infighting Reddit has been pretty toxic lately. Or always, I guess.

And there are third party apps allowed here!

For me there are things I like and don’t like. It’s the first time I’ve encountered the “swipe a little to upvote” feature but I’m finding I like it.

The average user won’t know what’s happening, they’ll just think “Wow, what’s with all this spam, mods need to do their jobs.”

What needs to happen is people migrate from Reddit to alternatives like Lemmy, or at the very least, the Reddit admins think enough people are going to leave Reddit. Filling your sub with spam won’t make people switch to Lemmy, they’ll just go to one of the remaining subs that’s still being moderated.

I’ve been telling people, the only way this works is if communities migrate somewhere else. Every single blacked out subreddit needs to post their new location on a site other than Reddit. Otherwise people will just stay on Reddit and wait or visit/make new subreddits.

Huh, it wasn’t coming up in a search for me. I had to try searching for it like three times and the first time I clicked your link I got a server error. Well, I guess the Lemmy servers are a bit screwy right now. Thanks for the link!

I assume that creating a whole server/instance takes some kind of resources and cost, but I think just opening a community is free? I haven’t tried it yet though.

Please do! I miss looking at Tumblr posts.

… Not enough to actually go on Tumblr, though.

Yup, there was a subreddit for every little thing. Every show I’d watch, even fairly niche ones, I could go read the subreddit after. Can’t do that elsewhere really. Might happen with Lemmy in time, but not yet.

You know, this is a good question.

Googling it would ruin the fun, but I’d assume that it’s an evolutionary thing so you don’t decide to go to sleep in an unsafe situation and get yourself eaten.

We’ve found them. The AmITheAsshole submitter.