• TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      Sam’s first business was an app tracking each other with you and your friends. It sounded useless at the time but it was probably a precursor idea to surveillance capitalism.

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        5 hours ago

        I wanted to build something similar but included a Reddit style posting community.

        I ultimately didn’t because the fear of a hostile takeover like what happened at twitter made me rethink allowing such a platform to exist.

        I know I wouldn’t use any of the data to monitor users, but there’s no reasonable way to stop others from abusing the system I created.

        it would be unethical to create such a system knowing it would eventually fall into some private investment firms hands.

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            3 hours ago

            when a multibillion conglomerate sets their eyes on you, do you really think anything will stop them from acquiring you?

            I would rather sabotage the whole product, but what’s stopping any of the devs from taking a copy and building it again for the conglomerate?

            you can’t put the genie back in the bottle once you set it free.