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A man who grabbed our concept of a centralized internet by the balls and squeezed it so hard that the Lemmy’s user count 65xed in a 3 months period. Thank you for your service

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The link doesn’t load. What did Gates do that you‘d put him in the same category as the rest?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

He is notorious for Microsoft's anti-competitive practices in the 1990s. But, I wouldn't put him in that company today. His philanthropy since leaving Microsoft is no joke.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Gates continued his bullshit well into his philanthrophy days.

And it looks like that the invidious instance that served my original post’s link is temprarily down. So here's another link.