I dunno Bernie. The use of the word oligarchy makes me "feel a little queasy." But I guess I agree with you.
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Why does every post ive seen like this leave out amazon
Not defending it, but probably because Amazon isn't media or social media. Well, Prime video is media, but it's not a behemoth like Washington Post or CNN, so it's not really relevant in the same way. I think the intent is to point out that almost every information outlet the average person learns about the world from is owned by a group of people small enough to get a table at a restaurant without having to call ahead. Fallout and The Boys being bundled in with your online shopping aren't really influencing people in the same way.
Bezos owns Amazon
And if people were to try to topple the oligarchy, Dems would toss them under the bus.
Dems bad!
Yes, oligarchs are bad. How is this controversial to you?
And Dems bad!
Boycott billionaires
Who owns ActivityPub? No one.
Me. It's mine
an oligarch! GET'EM!
You own it too, motherfucker!
Ah the ol' lemmy switcheroo.
Not trying to be that guy, but ActivityPub is technically owned by the W3C. I agree with the sentiment of your post regarding the free nature of AP.
You're right! This just reeks of Big ActivityPub propaganda!
Seems like there are an awful lot of tankies here though
Sure but watch this
Tankies suck! Stalin was a monster. China is an undemocratic oligarchy. Luigi Mangione should go shoot Kim Jong Un.
See? That's why the fediverse is better.
Yes that’s cool! But if we were in a community ruled by people who were to disagree with what you wrote you would be banned and censored the same. And some communities are too large and well in place for their userbase to be moved.
But they can't ban you from entire fediverse and that is the point.
If not tankies, then who rules this community? I'll put it to the test. My guess is that they'll only ban me if I say something truly horrible, not merely "people who disagree".
Enshittification is all about next quarter, not reliable income. Eventually it gets so shitty that the users move.
Average American: "That won't stop me because I can't read! [Trump approval rating continues going lower]."
More an example of plutocracy, but definitely an example of both.
Unless he's specifically talking about corporate holdings, then it's oligopoly, not oligarchy.
It can be considered a form of oligarchy (rule by the few) where the ruling few are wealthy.
I thought it was Larry Ellison’s son that is about to own this?
Nepoligarchy?
Curious why he said Twitch vs Amazon
Because he's stating the companies they own that control the narrative. Push the views they want and downplay ones that are critical. Twitch is more relevant than Amazon for that.
Thank you that makes sense. I figured he led with The Washington Post for that exact reason but didn't really see Twitch in the same light at first.
Media and social media.
Amazon is not really owned by any singular person. Yes, Bezos owns 8% of it, but he's neither CEO, nor a president of the company.
He's founder of Amazon, not owner of it.
Bezos is chairman of the board for Amazon though. The CEO reports to the board.
Board members, who have to vote. He cannot unilaterally control the company.
Institutional investors like Vanguard and BlackRock own over 65% of Amazon.
Especially since he doesn't explicitly own Amazon, of which Twitch is a subsidiary
forbes just released their 40th billionaires list:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/pr/2026/03/10/forbes-40th-annual-worlds-billionaires-list-elon-musk-is-worlds-richest-person-ever-recorded/
but… their own link is 404. 🤔
interesting. suspicious coincidences one might say.
and while archive.org has multiple copies of every day, just since march 10th when the new one got released… their are no copies
Always was.