Just what Canada needs, more mergers of media companies, more oligopolies, and more news falling into the hands of right-wingers.
As the mainstream media contracts … it makes it even more important to have outlets like Lemmy for everyone to use.
Online media and social media systems (including private ones) are the modern newspapers of our era.
If you want to protect this small little instance you are on with Lemmy, Kbin, Mastadon, or whatever else … SUPPORT YOUR INSTANCE … give a bit of money to finance them because they need the support … otherwise, as they become more and more popular and their costs increase over time, eventually, they too will get to the point of just being bought and sold like any other media outlet.
Does Lemmy actually have a mechanism in order to support itself/instances via anonymous donations?
It’s all done and organized through the owners and managers of the instance you are on. Go onto the main community or main page of your instance and look up the owners and managers of the instance, most of them have a section directing users on how and where to donate or contribute.
We have to normalize donating to these services … otherwise, they just get lost all over again because the owners can’t keep paying for things out of their pocket that others enjoy for free.
Would it be through Monero, tho? It is important that people can pay for stuff without linking their payment to their identity/themselves and all their content
Lots of ways of getting payments through … you could even just buy a $50 visa gift card, then just use that to send payment through to someone … I know people aren’t wealthy … I even have a hard time justifying giving some myself … but I do budget myself about $100 a year to give to all the open source, freeware, patreon, subscription stuff to support the people that maintain, manage and create all the sites, services and software that I want to support … I give to Wikipedia, Ubuntu, some other Linux distros I like, LibreOffice, some independent apps I like and now to Lemmy and the software developers that make it all possible … if we don’t support stuff like this … then it all just eventually erodes away and gets sold off like everything before it.
Right, obviously Lemmy/kbin will want to look at settting up the standards so this is easy and ensures people aren’t doxxing themselves when they financially contribute to their respective sub-communities
Why must we all race to having just one company own everything?
It used to be that the government would force companies to break up when they got too big. Hasn’t happened in decades though. Government is too corrupt now.
It’s not corruption, it’s capture.
Neoliberalism has been the hegemonic politico-economic ideology for 30+ years in this country, and neoliberals believe that “the market knows best”.
We keep electing people who honestly believe government shouldn’t interfere. That it shouldn’t… Govern.
At least, not the rich.
The nature of competition is to have a winner. When your economy is competitive in nature and any body with the power to redistribute things when they get too concentrated chooses not to, for whatever reason, you get this.
The Monopoly game only ends when someone wins decisively or someone flips the table out of exasperation. The police exist to prevent ordinary citizens from rising up and flipping the table
The Star has been falling off the edge of the boat for a year or so. Just making it official, I suppose. #BanPostmedia
Been a serious decline since they last changed ownership.
Woooo more American ownership of Canadian news!
When will the government step in and rip it up?
Right after they reform the CRTC to stop obeying their industry “bosses”.
How many large somewhat independent papers even exist now? The only ones I can think of are Le Devoir and La Presse, I can’t think of any English publications
