• hazelnot@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    Tbh it’s capitalism. It teaches people to be afraid of choices, and to just take what the corporation is handing them. It’s… disconcerting how pervasive this kind of convenience culture has become and what kind of effect it’s having on people’s lives

    Fedi doesn’t have an onboarding problem, people have a capitalism problem

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      1 year ago

      that is an interesting point. when people are confronted with the choice of where to store their data, they just nope out

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      I don’t think it’s explicitly an issue with capitalism itself (although capitalism does use it to it’s advantage). Decision Paralysis is well-known, and i don’t see why abolishing capitalism would make it universally easier to make uninformed decisions