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    13 days ago

    Does anybody else find it weird that we’re boycotting one mega corp then using another mega corp’s platform to view this?

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            12 days ago

            Feel free to create a new platform.

            Lemmy barely works and it just shuffles text for a few hundred thousand users. Try creating a 4k video platform for billions without “being a megacorp”.

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              12 days ago

              There’s a weird amount of support for YouTube in these replies.

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                12 days ago

                The business direction, moderation, scams and copyright strike weaponization deserve their criticism, but on an engineering level it is an amazing feat. I’m still impressed how they manage to make it work at the scale it is.

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      12 days ago

      I’m not boycotting Disney anymore. What they did was so far beyond the pale, it’s definitely deserved it (and I did). But finding a mega corp that has directly defied Trump at all is refreshing and imo should be positively reinforced.

      For the record, I’m giving them less than I did before. But incentives work and we need them to support basic rights.

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      12 days ago

      i agree with your sentiment, but misunderstand the ‘confusion’ (definately wrong word, sorry) about the source being on yt.

      of course one mega corp is going to utilise another mega corps infrastructure. these institutions must back each other, forcing customers to go to their friends store is better (and cheaper) for them in every imaginable sense.

      i guess what the crux of my misunderstanding is why the source even matters. really the source is abc or whatever, so uploading it to peertube or archive.org is better anyway, right?

      idk, let me know if i understood or not.

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        12 days ago

        Because we boycotted Disney and caused financial harm to them, inciting a sliver of change then turned around and flooded YouTube with revenue from our views giving an equally terrible company money while they actively contribute to the same terrible ideologies as Disney does.

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      12 days ago

      Bro just discovered capitalism. Are you going to throw out your phone too? Or do you draw the line at child labor and blood metals?

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      12 days ago

      Yes. The economy is impossible to navigate 100% of the time with your ethics fully intact. There are no perfect answers, only better ones.

      I encourage you and everyone to avoid black-and-white thinking about this, and instead, invite a nuanced approach. Strive to make better decisions, but embrace the fact that perfection is impossible. Compromise doesn’t undo your ethical fiber, but do be aware of the consequences of the choices you make.

      Edit: I’m around if anyone wants a deeper convo about this.

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      13 days ago

      Tell me when you find utopia. Until then, shut up and pick the lesser of evil choices that you’ve always had to choose from anyway.