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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jun-2022 11:52:38 UTC Aral Balkan

   And I get it. Everything’s so shit you WANT to believe there are folks out there doing what they say they do… that they’re on your side, fighting Big Tech, protecting your privacy… I get it because – fuck it – I want to believe that. And yes, there are folks like that too… and they’re usually struggling to get by and rarely get any funding or support from anyone…

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   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jun-2022 11:52:59 UTC Aral Balkan

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     … And that’s why it riles me up to no end to see corporations like Mozilla Corporation that are not what they say they are getting away with blatantly lying to our faces while very successfully staving off effective regulation for Big Tech, sucking up funding, and acting as honeypots for devs who do really care only to neutralise them with projects they know will not actually threaten the Silicon Valley status quo.

     (Also, I suck at stepping away from the keyboard apparently!) :)

     #mozilla

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   • ozoned (ozoned@mastodon.technology)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jun-2022 11:53:31 UTC ozoned

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     @aral as someone that got sucked into a well known tech company, because I believed in the "mission", I realize now how naive I was and how much they took advantage of my passion and absolutely burned me out over 6 years and paid me very little to kill myself. It's become very clear to me that they're all the same and the only way forward are independent projects and supporting them. Such as the #fediverse . #PeopleOverPlatforms #ProtocolsOverPlatforms

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