Over a year following its post-election surge, Bluesky’s mobile app is seeing a continued decline in active users, though its remaining community is still relatively engaged.
Really though, you speak some truth, but it seems like you make the case for breaking up monopolies. Of course the current political environment in the US wouldn’t allow that, but you’ve identified winner take all. I disagree about whether it’s inevitable or does it take continual coersive action to stomp out that competition?
It should have never been allowed for Facebook to take over WhatsApp and Instagram or Google taking over YouTube… It’s the opposite of what capitalism should be according to people who defend it: allowing such mega monopolies destroys the few benefits the free market has to offer. It stunts innovation and encourages enshittification and anti consumer vendor lock-in behaviour
Those people are clueless. Capitalism is this, this is it’s truest form, everything else is actually stopping capitalism from being itself and it will not yield in the long term, until you get rid of the capitalist system altogether.
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Really though, you speak some truth, but it seems like you make the case for breaking up monopolies. Of course the current political environment in the US wouldn’t allow that, but you’ve identified winner take all. I disagree about whether it’s inevitable or does it take continual coersive action to stomp out that competition?
It should have never been allowed for Facebook to take over WhatsApp and Instagram or Google taking over YouTube… It’s the opposite of what capitalism should be according to people who defend it: allowing such mega monopolies destroys the few benefits the free market has to offer. It stunts innovation and encourages enshittification and anti consumer vendor lock-in behaviour
Those people are clueless. Capitalism is this, this is it’s truest form, everything else is actually stopping capitalism from being itself and it will not yield in the long term, until you get rid of the capitalist system altogether.