It's hard to get away from the hardware companies through. I'm all AMD because they're a little less evil, but they're in the same AI bubble and also currently doing little in terms of innovation since they already have the performance advantage

You should break yourself from any tech stack that isn't open source and either decentralized or federated if it's an online service, regardless of country of origin.

The control of media and of communication by the wealthy is mainly a threat to society.

It's not like eating junk food where you're only harming yourself.

We're all threatened by people being ignorant and propagandized.

Now, what you can do, there are many things. Talk to your neighbors, involve yourself in your community, get people to come on the Fediverse, demonstrate, etc.

Really is a shame

I keep trying to relate this to when we started mass-producing books. It must have been the same. We integrated that tech and got better.

I am not personally a fan right now.

Just vote for trump. It’s all the same.

I don't think that's the criticism, rather we fixing the problem at the wrong end of things. We can't fix society by stressing personal responsibility, we need a different tactic.

I am not saying that it's hard to drop

I'm saying that because of Discord's structure it's hard to move Discord communities to other platforms because you need to move a community of many people rather than just an account on which you post and view posts like when moving from Twitter to Mastodon or Reddit to Lemmy