IMF and World Bank playbook
EZ's avatar EZ
Facebook's hyper agressive growth strategy includes targeting fresh internet users in poor countries where most people access internet via mobile. They partner with local mobile operators to offer 'free unlimited data' for accessing Facebook and its ecosystem, while the rest of the internet is 'paid.' For most of the new internet users, Facebook is the internet. It's the most efficient data harvesting operation, maybe ever.
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Beneath The Ink 10 months ago
This is actually kind of wild. Predatory as all hell but they have all the leverage with these people. Yet another way westerners are privileged in the fact that we can get systems in place to do self hosting while most of these "new users" wouldn't be able to do the same. How could nostr realistically work without reliance on western relays or centralized relays in their respective regions?
One of the great advantages of Nostr is how lightweight the protocol is (vs something like Farcaster or other "decentralized socials"). No reason an under-resourced third-world user with a cheap computer can't run their own relay.