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   Rachel Thorn (rachel_thorn@queer.party)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 21:49:52 JST Rachel Thorn

   I think it must be somewhat terrifying to big corporations to consider the possibility of huge numbers of people migrating to a social networking platform that refuses to be monetized. I think the Fediverse represents a pretty significant threat to capitalism.

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     Luci For Tai Chi (bri_seven@queer.party)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 22:01:15 JST Luci For Tai Chi

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     @Rachel_Thorn ssshhh don’t say that too loudly

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     Rachel Thorn (rachel_thorn@queer.party)'s status on Saturday, 12-Nov-2022 01:15:32 JST Rachel Thorn

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     @22 Yes, I'm sure the capitalists will manage to muddle through somehow. (*laughing while crying*)

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     22 (22@octodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Nov-2022 01:15:33 JST 22

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     @Rachel_Thorn well, when twenty years ago we were all installing Linux, which was free and open source and etc., and Microsoft was trying to destroy it and Linus (the author of Linux) said something like “I’m not trying to destroy Microsoft that’ll be a totally unintended side effect”. But today Microsoft and Amazon make a ton of money selling Linux cloud services to companies. The lesson I learned from this is, people will find a way to monetize even the most unmonetizeable-seeming of things.

     (Another example is Buddhism → mindfulness apps.)