Depends on the tech I think. Old school p2p tech (e.g. Gnutella) was more decentralized. ActivityPub is more decentralized than Reddit. This kind of tech is more of a “public good,” so there’s less money in it and capitalism de-prioritizes it. I suppose cryptocurrency could be a counter-example though; decentralized tech that none-the-less got heavily centralized. The Internet itself too.
I’m mostly talking about massive centralized closed source tech like Uber, Facebook, Instagram, windows, Reddit, Google Suite and much more, because most of these platforms cannot run without a big investment to scale up with data centers only the wealthy can bankroll them and fully control them, they have and will always be used to benefit the rich at the expense of the working class. I recommend people migrate to open source and offline or decentralized or self hosted tech if they want something that doesn’t data mine their life for profit or force them into constantly inflating lifetime subscriptions or just simply get abandoned with time.
Depends on the tech I think. Old school p2p tech (e.g. Gnutella) was more decentralized. ActivityPub is more decentralized than Reddit. This kind of tech is more of a “public good,” so there’s less money in it and capitalism de-prioritizes it. I suppose cryptocurrency could be a counter-example though; decentralized tech that none-the-less got heavily centralized. The Internet itself too.
I’m mostly talking about massive centralized closed source tech like Uber, Facebook, Instagram, windows, Reddit, Google Suite and much more, because most of these platforms cannot run without a big investment to scale up with data centers only the wealthy can bankroll them and fully control them, they have and will always be used to benefit the rich at the expense of the working class. I recommend people migrate to open source and offline or decentralized or self hosted tech if they want something that doesn’t data mine their life for profit or force them into constantly inflating lifetime subscriptions or just simply get abandoned with time.