
Originally Posted by
Pixela
The point I'm making here is that putting your trust in a corporation and helping them to become a monopoly is stupid, especially when the foundation of why the corporation was built is money.
People invested in Sam Bankman-Fried:
Here is what he said:
“Ya. Hehe. I had to be. It’s what reputations are made of, to some extent. I feel bad for those guys who get f—ed by it, by this dumb game we woke westerners play where we say all the right shibboleths and so everyone likes us.”
Basically what he is saying is he said and did the things that his target audience wanted to hear or believe, to fool them. Because people fall for it if you lie to them, if you tell them the sweet little lies they want to hear they will take you at face value.
Spez of Reddit, did the exact same thing. He acted and said the things his unpaid moderators wanted to hear because he needed them to build his corporation up, and now he is taking the company public and now needs to pander to investor millionaire and billionaires he is going full corpo talking like a capitalist and removing moderators that oppose him.
Jack of Twitter did the exact same thing, and is now a billionaire in some desert island drinking cocktails.
I like Reddit, I like Discord I use them for specific things. However putting all your eggs in one basket and allowing them to become a monopoly is bad for you, it's bad for the things you like and ultimately they will crap on you when it's time to pander to investors and sell out.
Forums are good, discord is good, reddit is good. I like forums because they are separate and because billionaires don't have any interest in them.
Money corrupts, more money corrupts faster.