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  • He's kind of right in a way. If advertising is your model, you can never get bigger than the collective sum of your advertisers. That's scales well until you are one of the biggest companies in the world, and then there just aren't new sources of advertising dollars to build on. You need other monetization channels, and those can frequently be in conflict with the advertising mission.

    A subscription based service, in theory, directly converts your specific utility as a good or service into cash flow, rather than the utility of the service for pushing ad impressions.

  • This is the rub though - so many people think that there is a giant conspiracy to make tech conform to some nefarious capitalism endgame, but in a lot of cases, this shit is legitimately just consumer preference.

    Don't get me wrong, there is plenty of kleptocratic fuckery afoot as well, but there are also plenty of examples of consumers wanting something that actual experts think is dumb or unsafe.

  • I have gotten into it with tankies on lemmy.ml on this topic at length. If you are only criticizing historical communism or historical capitalism then you are guaranteed to be fighting a strawman. These ideologies are not even fixed or singular even within the source material, much less in practice. Yet so many people seem unable or unwilling to even engage on conversation about first principles if it doesn't cleanly fit inside their geopolitical head cannon.

  • I legitimately don't understand why there aren't more reddit-scraping Lemmy bots and entire instances dedicated to just reproducing reddit's link aggregation functionality, with local discussion. That shit would really piss of spez, and potentially harm reddit, and would make Lemmy an easier transition for a lot of people.

  • See it really feels like we are finding common ground. The US, as the defacto leader of the world in the past century, deserves a considerable amount of criticism. The US model is a tested hypothesis, as such it should endure the highest level of scrutiny. At times it has been barbaric and cruel, and autocratic and it enslaved entire generations.

    The thing is that we hope to avoid making these mistakes again by talking about them. If you don't talk about your mistakes, how can you ever learn?

  • I don't think you believe the opposite of what I believe. I don't think you can articulate any criticism of China, no matter how inconsequential. The opposite of what I believe would be if you could not muster any criticism of both the US and China.