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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2023 15:42:03 JST Aral Balkan

   “Hey, look, a huge shopping mall is about to be constructed next door.”

   Independent shops on fediverse avenue: “Yay! Can’t wait! This validates our existence! I can’t wait to see how this mall improves things for us!”

   At some point, I guess, you just can’t argue against self-defeating stupidity and you’re forced to watch (yet again) as nature (Silicon Valley) does its thing.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 00:22:52 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Jeroen Massar

     @jeroen My point was that what we see is that when a shopping mall moves into an area they put independent businesses out of business.

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     Jeroen Massar (jeroen@secluded.ch)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 00:22:54 JST Jeroen Massar

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     @aral the better analogy would be a supermarket chain IMHO

     The "shopping mall" are the centralized hosters, people tend to not self-host, let alone on own hardware (I'll excuse hosting in own DC); shopping malls can still have independents... but they all pay rent to a single overlord (Hoster/colocation); the roads are ISPs, which few do on their own... (as at that point it becomes a near full time job ;)