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by Bakary 1989 days ago
But these are the services that people actually use. On Mastodon you end up with... well the sort of person who uses Mastodon. Which means that the people that run those services have some degree of de facto influence, which in turn means that they are likely to end up regulated and constrained by other powerful actors.

Today it's rich people in California, once it was rich people building railroads and pumping oil.