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Comment by baryphonic | Hacker News Reader

> Gemini is the web reimagined through the lens of human scale anticapitalism. (Emphasis added)

IMO, I'd much rather have a web that is anticommunist. The gatekeepers today act quite a bit like a politburo and the "content" that is allowed feels a bit like Pravda's editors were involved.

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Who are the “gatekeepers” stopping you from running a webserver with whatever “content” you want?

Gemini has even fewer gatekeepers than the normal web. There aren't any corporations trying to establish themselves as "the AOL of Gemini" or whatever. If it leans in any direction it's anarchist.

gemini like http is decentralized

The gatekeepers are exclusively capitalist companies.

You realize one of the goals of capitalism is to replace all public services with private, for-profit ones?

There are plenty cases where I have no problem with private companies and their products. But software is one situation where I just can't convince myself anymore to buy perpetual licenses for, when it's blackbox, and usually spyware. And they go the extra mile to handicap it for profit, when the MVP would be cheaper without it anyways.

The only things I think are worth paying for digitally are art, games (which I guess are art), and services. But I'm not paying a license for a text editor, for example. Running proprietary code feels... subpar and janky, I guess?

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