Just Another Person on Beehaw
In the United States (at least) the whole point of a free press is to keep politicians in check. You can’t separate the news from politics.
Well yeah, if they were truly going to follow the “don’t be evil” motto they’d have to give up capitalism, which ain’t gonna happen.
The problem now is that these more recent platforms worked to make themselves harder to replace, so when it came time to replace them, there was more resistance.
Things have become more centralized and people just want tech to work. So when things like the fediverse need patients while “stuff gets worked out” they are not used to it.
It still sucks at giving notifications on time.