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Sad but true. What is so trippy to me is how the platforms exude vibrancy and potential while simultaneously being sort of prisons, schemes, or Hotels California, with rules and structures you can’t really see. I keep wondering how to liberate the vibrancy, but I think that free alternatives actually won’t work until we have a real active workers’ movement for freedom, and then the platforms will be reappropriated, so there won’t be a need to build new ones.

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I've come to a similar conclusion. The internet is captured and dead, until it's not.

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Nov 2Liked by Jeff Thomas Black

I hope Substack makes enough money to pay its bills. So I can keep reading.

Being able to make a living as a writer has always been an occupation for the few.

Good luck.

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Oct 8Liked by Jeff Thomas Black

If there be money to be made on any platform, 20% of the content makers will garner 80% of the profits. The other 80% of content makers will fight for the remaining 20% of profits. Eventually, substack will become the next meta...a complete waste of time and effort.

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Oct 8Liked by Jeff Thomas Black

Monopoly Capital from the 1960s outlines the problems with the Internet.

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