• Gigan@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Amazon owns too much shit. They should be broken up into 5-6 different companies

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        The Bells should have been nationalized as all utilities should be, most of what amazon does is not things we need to nationalize (imo)

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          I strongly disagree. If we don’t nationalize IMDB then how can we possibly have any trust in the integrity and honesty of movie reviews?

          Everyone should be entitled to have access to accurate movie ratings.

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            7 months ago

            The imdb used to be a bunch of files on Usenet. A lot of us contributed at the time. Then someone grabbed the lot, stuck it in a database and slapped ads on it.

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        I’m sorry. I read the wiki and I’m familiar with this event, but have no idea what your talking about. Is the break-up of AT&T the best example of anti-trust being used in the last 50 years? What was the issue?

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          7 months ago

          It seems I pulled the wrong example out of my behind, thanks bad memory. For the life of me, I can’t remember what a clear example was now, I look very silly and should apologise.

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      I sometimes check IMDB on my TV when I’m watching something. Since I can’t get real ad blockers on the TV, I only have dns level blocking, which is less effective. And IMDB has been terrible lately, as it seems more interested in shilling prime content and showing me ads for completely unrelated items on Amazon than it is in actually loading the goddamn page.

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    7 months ago

    They missed a few:

    • Zappos
    • PillPack
    • One Medical
    • Whole Foods
    • Kiva Robotics
    • MGM Studios
    • Egghead Software
    • DPReview
    • AbeBooks
    • Woot
    • Goodreads
    • Comixology
    • Ring
    • Eero

    They also have stakes in:

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    7 months ago

    “everyone” here meaning, what, 2-3 other megacorps?

    fuck Amazon, sure, but in Amazon vs Google we lose either way.

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    I don’t think Azure or Google Cloud are much better. It would be better to self host.

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      Very little of the competition in any sector is actually better. It just depends what flavour of enshittification you prefer.

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          I self host nextcloud, jellyfin and set of servarrs. Next project is probably searx. Unfortunately there aren’t really options in at least a few categories.

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      Yeah but self hosting at scale isn’t remotely easy.

      I’m talking thousands of servers; as someone who ran infra in a bare metal data center, it’s got its own set of issues. I hate google cloud and aws, but they do beat running your own hardware.

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    I don’t know if it’s intentional, but yes, seeing a deleted image does scream them not wanting you to see whatever it is that was on it.

    Edit: image back up

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    It’s so wild that tycoons will be like “central planning doesn’t work, we gotta leave everything up to the market”, but then the market just looks like 5-10 mega-conglomerates centrally planning everything.

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      “We need small government!” So instead of getting screwed by the guy who has to stand in front of you and say he’s going to screw you, we’ll have a bunch of guys hiding behind shell companies screwing us and bribing the politicians to make it legal.

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    This doesn’t come close to listing all the companies they’re competing with in each of those spaces, and in some cases those competitors came later to take on a service Amazon developed. I’m 90% sure Microsoft Azure came along after AWS and I think Alexa was the first of that kind of device, before the Google Home speakers. It’s a good overview of some of the diverse markets they’re in, though.

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    This is how you become a trillionaire. Nothing has been stopping them from being a monopoly, so why stop now.

    If they are allowed to do it, then it’s hard to blame them. They have free reign to do everything. Destroying the environment, obliterating competition, and enshittifying their own products along the way.

    Welcome to the future now.

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    7 months ago

    Don’t forget Libro.fm for audiobooks, maybe I’m misinformed, but I thought they were one of the stronger competitors at least in terms of completeness of selection.