In practice firms consolidate regardleas of individual wallet voting. Wallet voting has no bearing on one corporation acquiring another. It has also no bearing on a few corporations dividing the user base amongst each other through lock-in and unofficial cooperation. If wallet voting was a strong influence, pervasive market failure wouldn't be a thing. The fact is that firms accumulate financial capital over time, buy failed competitors along with their customers, then rinse and repeat until there's few firms left. And they have vastly more money and therefore vasrly more "votes" that they use in various "elections" than individuals. Individual wallet voting could only ever work if massively organized and that is extremely difficult to achieve. Not the least due to these same firms spending their capital to keep individuals from collectively voting, via various well-known behaviour modificaton techniques.
And the anti-competitive practices won't stop unless we persistently step on corporations' necks. Capitalism incentivizes these behaviours.
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Agreed. It's got notable, outsized externalities like some other notorious industries like the fossil fuel one.
The class war almost invariably underpins the other apparent social conflicts.
Social media algos are a product of late stage capitalism. 🥹
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Luckily I have auto snapshots on the Jellyfin data dir so restoring it to 10.10.7
was pretty trivial.
Friendly reminder to use snapshotting filesystems for your app data. E.g. ZFS, Btrfs. Then most fuckups can be unfucked with a single zfs rollback
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It's the FOSS alternative of Plex. If you run Plex or were curious about running Plex, setup Jellyfin. Then setup the arr-stack.
That makes sense ans in addition it seems like the research conditions themselves are starting to shift in favour of the other regime.
They better be built on FOSS. Not only that would help with the market failures others highlighted in this thread, but it would produce an industry American firms can't compete with due to the lower software cost. Software implemented once, then shared at no additional cost is a significant competitive advantage than having to have dedicated softwate teams implementing the same things at every corporation but differently, in order to create lock-in.