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“Hey, look, a huge shopping mall is about to be constructed next door.”
Independent shops on fediverse avenue: “Yay! Can’t wait! This validates our existence! I can’t wait to see how this mall improves things for us!”
At some point, I guess, you just can’t argue against self-defeating stupidity and you’re forced to watch (yet again) as nature (Silicon Valley) does its thing.
@aral the better analogy would be a supermarket chain IMHO
The "shopping mall" are the centralized hosters, people tend to not self-host, let alone on own hardware (I'll excuse hosting in own DC); shopping malls can still have independents... but they all pay rent to a single overlord (Hoster/colocation); the roads are ISPs, which few do on their own... (as at that point it becomes a near full time job ;)
@jeroen My point was that what we see is that when a shopping mall moves into an area they put independent businesses out of business.
@aral yeah, the large corps use their foreign tax avoidances, special governmental grants that only work for them as they lobbied for them just to be that way, ability to buy in bulk and get lower prices, with which others do not succeed.
We can only hope that community run instances keep on running and that people realize that they do not have to be part of a corporate instance to be part of this.