https://lemmy.world/comment/17919203

Thank you for making laugh in the middle of my life loathing rant 😂

So they are ok with spending hundreds of millions of dollars, just not in any way that actually improves the city for the people that live in it?

It’s not about the money, it’s just misanthropy.

Lol I think they’re already using the same technology that is used by AI to do biochemistry, so I didn’t mean “ask chatGPT.”

Maybe use some that AI shit to engineer some microbes that can eat plastic. Or I dunno make less plastic waste?

I definitely agree with you, but I remember how Digg & then Reddit both went to shit once the masses started to use them. Same with Facebook.

I feel like if we all spread out between multiple platforms, none will become big enough for the enshitification to hit them.

I disagree. Things seem to get worse when the herds move to them. It’s as if things are good precisely because they aren’t there.

Federated social media is decentralized, so one single jackass can’t control it completely.

Like, maybe Elon Musk buys pawb.social, he now controls pawb.social & can be a tyrant in pawb.social just like he has been with Twitter.

He still can’t control quokk.au, or lemmy.world, or feddit.org, or lemmy.ca, or lemmy.dbzer0.com, or lemmy.blahaj.zone, etc.

And in the extremely unlikely event that if Elon does manage to buy pawb.social, it is extremely likely that many lemmy servers would just defederate from pawb.social & leave pawb.social isolated from the rest of the fediverse.