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[–] sandflavoured@lemm.ee 21 points 2 months ago (11 children)

It really doesn't need to be this way.

At any time, we can decide to open our own blog for $9 a year. At any time we can choose to ditch algorithmic socials.

If we don't like them, we don't need to use them, and just switch off.

[–] nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 2 months ago (7 children)

you can publish independently, but it's hard to get found. Search engines are cluttered with nonsensical link farms these days :-(

[–] B0rax@feddit.org 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It wasn’t easy getting found in the 2000s as well

[–] nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

and that was a bad thing. it's bad now, too.

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