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Technology in Socialism (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by sahin@lemmy.world to c/socialism@lemmy.ml

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We are living in a world owned by tech companies. People have 6 hours of screen time on average, mostly spent in capitalist apps like Fb Google Amazon Insta Reddit Youtube Chatgpt etc, and these companies shape people's opinions.
Without owning these apps, or creating an alternative that people use, it is very hard to change anything, because they can manipulate people easily, and actually people became zombies with this much screen usage.

So what is the plan? How can we create alternatives? Is there a socialist development movement? Or how can we own the existing companies? How can the govnments use these companies in a socialist environment?

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[–] Core_of_Arden@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There are alternatives... Just search on "alternatives to"... You are sitting on an alternative. What it lacks, are that people help other people get here...

[–] Yliaster@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's really no good image-discovery social media platform like X/Insta. I've tried a few, and they either lack algos, or have negligible user base, either of which make them useless.

[–] Core_of_Arden@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours ago

There's no good alternatives for you... "You" are the option here... For everyone else, there's alternatives... That you don't want to use them, that's on you. If you think that X or insta has good algorithms, just shows that you don't know those platforms...