<span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social</a></span><br><br>who control the platform own users' minds, what they can read, who can read them, what goes viral, who becomes influencer, who is harrassed and what opinion spread among each segment of population.<br><br><a href="https://snac.tesio.it?t=bluesky" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Bluesky</a> is just like <a href="https://snac.tesio.it?t=twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#twitter</a>: even without <a href="https://snac.tesio.it?t=musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#musk</a>, you can only serve the owners' interests, either with what you write or what you read.<br><br>With true <a href="https://snac.tesio.it?t=decentralization" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#decentralization</a> and chronological timelines people don't get reduced to servants.<br><br>To me this is much more important than "following" people. In fact, I don't find bootlickers much interesting, and to get a huge number of followers on centralized platforms you must serve their owners' interests one way or another.<br>