• candyman337@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    19·
    7 months ago

    The difference is they don’t control it, it’s public, can’t really sell data that’s public. They also can’t shake the platforms into for profit hellscapes like YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, etc.

    Big tech has been controlling the Internet for too long and it’s time it stopped.

    • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
      7·
      7 months ago

      can’t really sell data that’s public.

      Google doesn’t sell the raw data. The service it “sells” is the indexing of that data amongst other sources of data.

      • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.comOPMEnglish
        15·
        7 months ago

        You‘re missing the point. They can profit off the data like anybody else but they cant make it unavailable to others.

        • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
          2·
          7 months ago

          I get the point. The problem is that Google/Alphabet is the only company that you listed that does better with a decentralized Internet instead of walled gardens like Meta and X.

          • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.comOPMEnglish
            2·
            7 months ago

            First, I didnt list anything from what I see. That was someone else.

            Second, they didnt list google either but feel free to link it

            Third, the original point was that walled gardens are fought with the fediverse which you objected to the point that they cant sell it which is technically correct but misses the point.

            Does it make more sense now?