utopiArte<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://beige.party/users/cobalt123" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cobalt123</span></a></span> thx for the links and response <span class="h-card"><a href="https://techhub.social/users/fedipete" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>fedipete</span></a></span>!</p><p>I read and commented on <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mamot.fr/users/pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span>'s latest take already. Truly sorry to tell you, but Cory and I defer in the evaluation about the main reasons why people are captive, (actually they only feel that they are captivated) and how to properly react.</p><p>So, as I got this for now, "captive userbase" is people that went into a room and are knocking on it's wide open door sobering that they have no other choice than being violated day and night inside that open door prison they feel captivated in.</p><ul><li> Cory considers my position unemphatic, I consider speaking truth to imprisoned minds the first step to enable them to free themselves.</li><li> He considers to speak in favor of investing money to loosen their chains an act of mercy, I consider it an act of improving their chains and making them feeling free in their newly elected open door prison, prolonging and improving the locked in effect.</li><li> He considers it useful and a smart move to speak in favor and putting his name on the line, same as <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/mmasnick" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mmasnick</span></a></span> does, investing money to create another open door in the new walled open door prison garden called <a href="https://tupambae.org/search?tag=bluesky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bluesky</span></a>, I prefer to invest every cent to show them that the gate is open and that there are plentiful gardens out there in the free as in freedom <a href="https://tupambae.org/search?tag=freeWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freeWeb</span></a> called the <a href="https://tupambae.org/search?tag=fediVerse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fediVerse</span></a> we build and improve for them every day.</li></ul><p><em>"Captive users" is synonym to self imprisoned masochists who actually love the masters house, their house.<br>Shall they live happily ever after in their self inflicted imagined algorithmic prison.</em></p> <strong>¡peace!</strong> <p>btw<br>I definitely had preferred a simple answer in your own words, I know how to google and search wikipedia, there are lot's of reasons to ask people directly, one without any doubt is:</p>