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    Americans probably should have boycotted American products back when Europe put consumer data safeguards in and the US government refused to. Our food safety, our work life, our online data, our health care-- all driven by profit motive in the US but protected as rights in Europe.

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      Libertarian ideas are quite popular in the US; we are waiting for the invisible hand of the market to save us. Learned helplessness at its best.

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      These brands all still follow all those rules when they operate in Europe, they just don’t bother on the other side. Like we get snicker bars and whatever, but they’re just slightly healthier or at least don’t contain stuff that’s actively bad for you, but they’re still shit if that’s all you eat. The usual example is Fanta where the difference is really stark.

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    The buy Canadian Facebook group if you Facebook is full of great alternatives. Yes Facebook sucks the rigid cock of Satan, but it is very useful.

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    The right hand column for “Drinks” can just be tap water barring a few exceptions water in Europe is clean and safe as well as being delicious in some countries!

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    This is misinformation. BlueSky is not a non profit. It is a public benefit company. The shareholders still expect profit.

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      The shareholders expect growth and therefore increase in the value of their investment, public benefit companies are however under no obligation to their shareholders to pass on profits to shareholders in the form of dividends. It’s definitely not a non-profit either though, it’s a different structure.

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        Plenty of “regular” for profit companies focus on increasing share value by investing profits back into the company instead of paying out dividends. That doesn’t really mean anything.

        Edit: I see what you mean based on what I said. They expect a return on investment is a better way to phrase it.

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    There are so many issues with this, lots of wrong information, recommendations of stuff that’s bad and really shouldn’t be recommended and stuff that really should be there isn’t. Please don’t share it this further, it’s absolutely shit.

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        It gets very obvious when it reccomends basically just volkswagens and volkswagen rebadges under cars.

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      “Oh no this is wrong”… proceeds to shit on it, not provide a single example or correction

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        Home to Go is just a search engine for VRBO, which is a US company owned by Expedia. It is not a replacement for Airbnb, nor does it stop supporting US companies.

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          I’m not in it but I have been told it’s almost impossible to control the narrative as Muskrat does on Twitter

          It is held by a benefit corporation which means they have to, at least pretend, to bring some societal benefit

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            While AT Protocol is sort of federated in a sense, no one really runs aggregators (which serves half of the role an instance does in ActivityPub) besides BlueSky themselves, so they can still control it if they wanted to.

            Also, “normal” for profit companies can also pretend to want to bring good to the world. It’s misinformation because public benefit companies are allowed to collect a profit (post says non profit).

            I still believe BlueSky is world’s better than Twitter! But it’s important to be honest about it.

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    Bluesky has to be running a massive propaganda push. I see so many lies saying they are decentralized or like here saying they are a non-profit.

    This shit is evil. Whoever is making these fliers is not being honest.

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      It’s more important to get people off twitter. Mastodon just doesn’t have the right pull right now.

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        Regardless, flat-out lying and saying that Bluesky is non-profit is a bad look.

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          I agree.

          Taking sides in a war kerfuffle between billionaires that don’t care about you is just weird nonsense.

          Go as fossy as possible and support your devs directly.

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        Shout-out to Sharkey! We’re young, hip and have reactions other than “heart”. Plus, we can talk to Mastodon instances and it all just works. Ever thought what your social network needed was unlockable achievements? We’ve got that, too!

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          You made me look up Sharkey and create a Sharkey account, just letting you know you had some impact.