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I don't think the arguments made by you and OP are mutually exclusive. Facebook is a rotten company and we shouldn't even be using their website, let alone paying them for the privilege. But Websites aren't free to operate, Ads are toxic, and we shouldn't let Ads be the method by which Websites pay their costs.
If OP weren't posting their argument in a thread about Facebook, but Lemmy instead for example, I think your read might be different. Their last sentence, to me, indicates that they agree with you.
Yeah if you read more down the pipe, we aren’t in disagreement, fundamentally.
I just don’t think Meta is the entity to break free from the “why can’t everything on the internet be free when I just bought a $800 phone?!?” paradigm.
And I don’t trust them to just basically take what we have now, and sell it to us. Which, come on, you know that’s exactly what they’ll do.
TV powerhouses feared the internet would make their bloated cable packages obsolete. Look at them now. The internet has a bevy of streaming services. Cable packages 2.0.
Capitalism is getting worse, not better.