• drake@lemmy.sdf.org
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    13 hours ago

    May all of the for-profit websites chip and shatter.

    We don’t need them. We have never needed them.

    Let’s take the internet back to when it was a place where people ran websites for things they cared about.

    Fuck profits, fuck corporations, fuck capitalism. Solidarity across the working class.

    • quirzle@lemmy.zip
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      7 hours ago

      Like basically everything, there’s balance to be struck. If sites operate purely off of donations and enthusiasm, it’s easy to turn out like kbin.social instead of myspace.

      Nothing’s stopping people from running websites for things they care about right now, but you have to care an awful lot to host/support something for other people without the potential for it to at least pay for itself.