Somebody tell the good folks @ r/50501 about Mastodon and Lemmy I was autobanned (by reddit (not the mods)) as soon as I tried.

But sometimes whoever owns the infrastructure has you by the balls/ovaries and the only way to break free is to host everything yourself and own, run and maintain the infrastructure from a grassroots level.

Issues like net-neutrality stem from users not having control over the underlying systems.

stop wasting our time on these silly utopian fantasies

Well bad actors from all walks of life’s do nothing else all day but waste their time on scary dystopian nightmares.