To be fair, there’s plenty of things you can forego with no cost or negative cost. This isn’t like having to buy food at a grocery store. So while you can’t use the internet ethically, you can make ethical choices about which websites you visit.
But I understand that different people have different needs. A company or a politician might need reach. They are not just someone having fun online. For them is their business.
I actually think is a bad choice, because they would have better public elsewhere. But a wrong decision like that would make them just wrong, not fascist.
OK so we agree that Firefox could forego X with no or negative cost, but we’re cool with them doing it anyways because they have no choice, except in this case where they totally do.
To be fair, there’s plenty of things you can forego with no cost or negative cost. This isn’t like having to buy food at a grocery store. So while you can’t use the internet ethically, you can make ethical choices about which websites you visit.
That’s why I don’t go on twitter or reddit.
But I understand that different people have different needs. A company or a politician might need reach. They are not just someone having fun online. For them is their business.
I actually think is a bad choice, because they would have better public elsewhere. But a wrong decision like that would make them just wrong, not fascist.
OK so we agree that Firefox could forego X with no or negative cost, but we’re cool with them doing it anyways because they have no choice, except in this case where they totally do.
Yes, totally agree with that. Firefox userbase is precisely one that could be more prevalent in mastodon than in twitter.