You have no idea how much self-restraint it takes to prevent me from being "that guy" who rants about supporting a monopolistic oligarchy every time I see someone post an Amazon link on the fediverse.

Hopefully this minor vent post will help me keep it in for another few years.

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@LouisIngenthron Well part of the activity that relieves me (in educating others and until I get sign they want the bad) is showing better practices and giving a link replacement (like invidious links to replace youtube links)... that's as a replacement to venting.

And well I think mapping the bad and creating / envisioning between us like-minded is also needed as life is kinda *all* built on the bad but yes we can do better if paths are clearer (monopoly is the tactical aim for a reason by those other people)
So to say "don't... " isn't enough sometimes and I try to say "use this instead" but for example between me and you I think we can *create* something at least in theory to get better ground on venting about hardcoded / forced habits (somewhat) / miseducation / ignorance (etc!) and transmute that somewhat with whatever we have from imagination and beyond with other that can make things actually happen from us as two or more.

So my challenge to you is to almost say what you would usually say (you did it well already in short) but say what you would prefer or what you would imagine instead of Amazon?

Then maybe we can ping pong a bit and find what we can...

I feel those who have inertia or feel the injustice often should really do something about it and together more often...

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