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  • I am opposite to this.

    Present day Google IS chrome and as much as i am disgusted by them and want them broken up forcing a sale of chrome does not make sense and could actually spiral into the collapse of the company. (Don’t threaten me with a good time)

    All internet platforms want a… well platform to have users on. An interface/environment that in its most profitable form can be plastered with ads.

    For the google of old this used to be its search engine website.

    But it sucks now, the web has kept growing and most people only need a different tiny fraction of it.

    Yes its dominant, but its getting increasingly bad and will get increasingly useless as we start using smarter ai to filter (not re-generate) the web to our needs.

    This is why openai wants to buy chrome, they want to replace all that google was with themselves.

    Google also have their workspace platforms but there are no standalone apps. They are inherently designed for in browser use.

    All of this means it makes a lot of sense they have a clear incentive to want to control the browser. Because its the frame that contains almost everything they do.

    Compare that with microsoft, who owns the majority of operating systems, the entire office platform, and is also still competing with a search engine. And they still get to integrate edge like a glue no one asked for?

    Burn both these corpos but the logic applied here makes no sense.

    I am purposely ignoring all the other projects, robotics, Because honestly half of them never get to product and they don’t really effect the identity of theirs business as much.

    If anything it would make more to sell these other projects like autonomous cars, you know they are just going to try take over taxi services first and delivery services second if they get to keep that.


  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyztomemes@lemmy.worldHard agree
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    Our grandparents earned enough as single earners to provide for their entire family and own a house.

    Now 2 people work and they can barely pay rent on an apartment.

    Its not hard to see why the right cries about the good old times, except somehow its the gays, and not the bourgeoisie that they believe are what caused the decline.



  • I never started “beneficial”

    Its entirely possible that ai agents build, regardless of whose interest, keep running after their original owner dies.

    If the job is “become an industrialist, expand and drop % of all profits on this bank account” and its actually competent it could lead to industry itself being more and more monopolized by fewer and fewer ai.

    That would halt the status quo where many human agents create companies for different reasons and industry is an ethical melting pot. Thats what i meant.

    Till that point in time the morality of ai businessmen is not different in effect then a human businessmen. Once that point. This morality shifts into either extinction or thrive for humankind.



  • Both are true.

    The first ai companies will be prompted by Humans.

    A vast majority will be for profit. People want the ai to do the hard company work and collect the profit in their sleep as “owner” of the ai agent.

    A good few people will do exactly the same but request non profit style and ethical focus.

    Till we get to a mythical stage of agi that can actually decide globally if it thinks a company should exist or not and what purpose it should have, this is more or less same as the status quo.








  • The main problem with centralisation

    If the majority of user and communities live on a the same instance, and that instance goes down or becomes to toxic to keep federated then fediverse loses a large chunk of its whole. While if it a tiny instances that dissapears only a few people and communities need to migrate.

    General i also think its beneficial if the owners of an instance are the same people from the communities its hosts. The role of general use instances should be more like a backup mirror



  • Most of us don’t judge users but we are internally vocal about our own social challenges.

    .ml is a big instances and people coming from the old web find such attractive, it feels like “the official one” we are well aware.

    The have been attempts to advertise avoiding those but were not exactly a well coordinated organization.

    Regardless the ideology of .ml and others big instances pose a problem in centralized power. Lemmy works best as many tiny servers organically building a network of content and ideas.

    All of Lemmy is accessible as long as your instance is federated (almost all) however some may defederate from those problematic big ones, limiting the posts you can see.

    You wont lose much by changing instance right now. There is no karma or rewards associated with your account. You can also make multiple on different instances with the same user name so you have a backup if your main instance goes down.