The distrust on our feed is palpable, yes?
Negotiating separately and in secret, tailoring communications, amplifying differences, identifying fractions, exploiting information asymmetry, and discrediting leaders is all chapter one stuff in any divide and rule playbook. And in the last six months, every one of those tactics have been enacted or cultivated by you know who.
To make matters worse, many Fediverse leaders have given users every reason to be suspicious and distrusting 1 🧵
30 people went to the corporate campus to speak with reps. Only one had anything to say about it afterwards. _One_
And because this company (I'll just call it Ecorp from here out). And because Ecorp enacted an obscure clause, no one knows who went under what capacity, or what was said.
In that one write up, the only bullet point that could be directly attributed to ECorp employees was "A year ago, I did not know what the Fediverse was"
Do you know what happened almost a year ago exactly? 2 🧵