• tal@lemmy.today
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    7 months ago

    I mean, it’s a service. You can pay for it with your money, or pay with your data. I’d prefer the former, myself. But either way, it’s not going to be free.

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      7 months ago

      I would prefer paying for it with my taxes. Not for facebook though.

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        7 months ago

        Like, you want Instagram to get some kind of government subsidy? Why? And what about people who don’t want to use it? I mean, I don’t use Instagram.

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          7 months ago

          I would imagine it as lemmy. It would be a free, ethical software which is indirectly funded by the government. Everybody uses facebook so that’s a good reason to turn it into a public property. We could make it without anti-features. Made for people, not for profit.

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      7 months ago

      By this same logic I take it you’d be ok with the day care saying “you can pay with your money or we can use your kid for manual labor”?