At the same time, attacking an organized effort to do that thing we're repeatedly told is our only option ("vote with your wallet") by pointing out that some people have no options isn't something done in good faith.
No one is expecting people with no ability to shop elsewhere to do so, nor to starve. It's a strawman argument.
Competitions are meant to be won. The fact that we keep talking about things not working due to a lack of competition points to it being a red herring. The point is to crown a winner, and winners are being crowned.
"If you've done nothing wrong, then the angry mob I've riled up by telling them you're a child murderer won't hurt you."
This isn't a defense of Loblaws. Your thinking is just wildly wrong, and inherently blames victims.
We're going to be reduced to "one more mega corporation will fix everything", aren't we?
Sometimes that one brush stroke is really good, but I really do not give a shit about another still life painting.
Or always.
Yeah, always.
The US isn't the best baseline here, what with their infamous attitude that anywhere and everywhere else is unworthy of them.
There are any number of Mastodon forks out there. Misskey and its forks are really good. Pleroma and Akkoma are good, and so is Friendica.
Mastodon has always been an exercise in attention and influence seeking for Gargon. The rest of us don't need him or it. It's just a trademark.
Well, there's my daily panic attack taken care of early
I'd take a bean bag chair (I'm pretty lucky with my back, apparently), but I ain't sitting on no floor.
My butt will fall asleep!
Yes.
The board must put the interests of shareholders above other stakeholders, but those interests consist of a lot more than just immediate revenues.
Wow, JWST continues to impress on the desktop wallpaper front
Yeah, if we want to get people off of centralized, private social media sites, we really need Patreon integration for a range of fedi services. It's one of the significant pipelines for Discord adoption.
Lemmy/*bin, PeerTube, Matrix, what have you all have immediate drop-in replacement value. Other services, like Mastodon, don't have the same level of potential segmentation and exclusivity inherent in how they're built, but it'd be a way to set up paid access servers.
These kinds of gateways are important for actually making the fediverse seem like a viable alternative. Right now, the incentives are driving people toward closed gardens and destroying the open internet.