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Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Jul-2025 05:31:59 JST Aral Balkan

Odd, tried to get him and everyone else on Mastodon years ago but 🤷♂️
https://ar.al/notes/farewell-not-goodbye/
Do as I say, not as I do, I guess. https://todon.nl/@mar/114858718426096575
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  Mar 🔥 (@mar@todon.nl)
  
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  I've just finished reading _Technofeudalism_ by Yanis Varoufakis. If he's right, then it's politically urgent to escape from the clutches of Meta, Google, Amazon and the like as soon as possible. Varoufakis' arguments reminded me of _Chokepoint Capitalism_ by Rebecca Giblin and @pluralistic@mamot.fr, though according to Varoufakis the dominance of Amazon and the like has killed off capitalism and is a form of feudalism. I still want to compare these two analyses more carefully. But Varoufakis' argument is: these platforms have managed to lure people in to work for them for free, and with every post and update on their platforms, these exploitative and massively dangerous companies grow stronger and harder to defeat. On the other hand, if the people take back social media and the internet more generally, there's a real opportunity for building a counter-movement with these technologies. The lesson I take from this: getting people to quit the capitalist platforms and join the #Fediverse is part of political organisation, and possibly an important part if you consider the way people are tethered to their Instagram and Tiktok. Let me repeat this: Convincing and helping comrades to quit the capitalist platforms and join the Fediverse is an important form of revolutionary political organisation. ✊
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  Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Jul-2025 05:44:06 JST Aral Balkan
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  @ajn142 I wouldn’t know, I’m no leader nor do I want to be.
  
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  Buttered Jorts (ajn142@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Jul-2025 05:44:07 JST Buttered Jorts
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  @aral it’s his duty as thought leader to be where the people are, not where they should be ;)
  
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  Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Jul-2025 15:16:10 JST Aral Balkan
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  @jbiserkov Yeah, that’s what my site looked like at the time.
  
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  Jordan Biserkov (jbiserkov@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Jul-2025 15:16:12 JST Jordan Biserkov
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  @aral mostly offtopic, but I noticed at the end of the note a link to your since deleted profile on the since taken over by nazis birdsite.
  
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