Bluesky.

We know, Bernie. Go back in your crypt.

Curious why he said Twitch vs Amazon

Who owns ActivityPub? No one.

Because he's stating the companies they own that control the narrative. Push the views they want and downplay ones that are critical. Twitch is more relevant than Amazon for that.

Especially since he doesn't explicitly own Amazon, of which Twitch is a subsidiary

Thank you that makes sense. I figured he led with The Washington Post for that exact reason but didn't really see Twitch in the same light at first.

Not trying to be that guy, but ActivityPub is technically owned by the W3C. I agree with the sentiment of your post regarding the free nature of AP.

Come on man he's only eighty-four I'm hoping he wins the 2028 primary so he can make america socialist again.

You're right! This just reeks of Big ActivityPub propaganda!

Amazon is not really owned by any singular person. Yes, Bezos owns 8% of it, but he's neither CEO, nor a president of the company.

He's founder of Amazon, not owner of it.

Me. It's mine

He's done far more than you to try and fight it. Why so hostile towards him?

You go back to the white house

I'd vote for it

forbes just released their 40th billionaires list:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/pr/2026/03/10/forbes-40th-annual-worlds-billionaires-list-elon-musk-is-worlds-richest-person-ever-recorded/

but… their own link is 404. 🤔
interesting. suspicious coincidences one might say.
and while archive.org has multiple copies of every day, just since march 10th when the new one got released… their are no copies

Me too!

He's so virile.

Bezos is chairman of the board for Amazon though. The CEO reports to the board.

More an example of plutocracy, but definitely an example of both.

Unless he's specifically talking about corporate holdings, then it's oligopoly, not oligarchy.

an oligarch! GET'EM!

I thought it was Larry Ellison’s son that is about to own this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skydance_Media

It can be considered a form of oligarchy (rule by the few) where the ruling few are wealthy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutocracy

Seems like there are an awful lot of tankies here though

Sure but watch this

Tankies suck! Stalin was a monster. China is an undemocratic oligarchy. Luigi Mangione should go shoot Kim Jong Un.

See? That's why the fediverse is better.

Yes that’s cool! But if we were in a community ruled by people who were to disagree with what you wrote you would be banned and censored the same. And some communities are too large and well in place for their userbase to be moved.

You own it too, motherfucker!

If not tankies, then who rules this community? I'll put it to the test. My guess is that they'll only ban me if I say something truly horrible, not merely "people who disagree".

Enshittification is all about next quarter, not reliable income. Eventually it gets so shitty that the users move.

Always was.

Ah the ol' lemmy switcheroo.

But they can't ban you from entire fediverse and that is the point.

And if people were to try to topple the oligarchy, Dems would toss them under the bus.

Nepoligarchy?

Dems bad!

Media and social media.

Boycott billionaires

Board members, who have to vote. He cannot unilaterally control the company.

Institutional investors like Vanguard and BlackRock own over 65% of Amazon.

Yes, oligarchs are bad. How is this controversial to you?

Average American: "That won't stop me because I can't read! [Trump approval rating continues going lower]."

Why does every post ive seen like this leave out amazon?

Bezos owns Amazon

And Dems bad!

Not defending it, but probably because Amazon isn't media or social media. Well, Prime video is media, but it's not a behemoth like Washington Post or CNN, so it's not really relevant in the same way. I think the intent is to point out that almost every information outlet the average person learns about the world from is owned by a group of people small enough to get a table at a restaurant without having to call ahead. Fallout and The Boys being bundled in with your online shopping aren't really influencing people in the same way.

I dunno Bernie. The use of the word oligarchy makes me "feel a little queasy." But I guess I agree with you.

Institutional investors vote with the board as a matter of policy.

What that 65% actually is, is money from average Americans' retirement accounts that has been aggregated into index funds instead of individual stocks. That means those individual investors are disenfranchised from voting their shares.

That 65% doesn't dilute Bezos' power; it inflates it at the expense of the "little people." You're making the opposite of the point you think you're making.

"Pass through" voting for stocks held through mutual funds is yet another reform that we need but aren't getting because of oligarchy.

No mention of Oracle?

Exactly. Which is why i ask my question

You're lucky you're not in the wrong instance!

Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

This unironically

bernie is a fucking failure and i don't really care what he says

grab my self hosted server, I'm going in!

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(...someone give me another instance of this joke to link to.)