I never understood why the fuck you would let a company dominate your content. Something like /r/buildapc is just Tom’s Hardware.
We didn’t realize we gave up being owners.
We didn’t realize we gave up being owners.
Reddit is convenient. It's literally all your interests in one place. And for some interests, it's the best place to go.
Most people don't care who owns the platform. Someone always will. It's as abstract as someone telling them that they shouldn't be letting Apple or Microsoft control their OS. To a regular person, the "Linux alternative" isn't freedom, it's letting Canonical run the show.
Mastodon servers too have a very loose hold on their communities.