Gregory's Server(And this will in turn enable more divide and conquer. Also part of the usual strategy to break a movement that is perceived as a possible threat by big organisations)
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 I have raised the alarm bell already several years ago. Explained how the (at that time mostly dormant) Working Group at the W3C that is responsible for #ActivityPub must be reinvigorated (that happened) and must became a loud defender of the #fediverse (that didn't happen) or else we risk losing our ecosystem to fragmentation and infighting. And that infighting is already visible in the comments. Divide and conquer always works and costs close to nothing. Unfortunately.  @jwildeboer that's why it's being done. Also there's neither penalty nor deterrence to doing so... @jwildeboer Ads and advertising are (unfortunately) too much of a wedge. I see it with creative folks who argue that they need to eat. And they're not wrong but it's incredibly nuanced in social spaces. There's a big risk of losing a sense of any space where you just connect with other people when everything is just reaching into your wallet. Mutual aid and people sharing their work (which deserves compensation) is different but all money looks the same to people seeking to maximize profit. @clarablackink @jwildeboer #fedipact does not prevent people from maintaining a presence on fb/threads, which still dwarfs the entire fediverse in size. that fact is simultaneously why defederation is imperative, and why it should be no real loss @bug @jwildeboer You're right and I think there are plenty of people who grasp this. It's just that there's a marketing mindset that sees any empty wall as ad space and it requires a certain amount of community awareness and vigilance to say, "this isn't ad space", especially when someone can begin to throw large enough quantities of cash at it. I think sometimes well meaning people get caught up in that marketing mindset without grasping what gets lost. @bug @jwildeboer To say nothing of bad faith actors like Facebook. I was on Instagram before they acquired it, I hate that they're doing this again over here. @clarablackink @jwildeboer all it takes is recognizing that the wall is not actually empty, it's already inhabited by cultures (insert a fungus or moss analogy here)  @jwildeboer why do you think the SocialCG should be a defender of the fediverse? What does defending the fediverse mean to you? @jwildeboer Hi, genuine question because I don't want to loudly splain people. Why are you specifically mentioning EEE and not privatization? |
"It's not our evil plan, you people are already doing it" is the typical argument for Divide and Conquer. Unsurprisingly they bring that argument too:
"For instance, fediverse advocate and co-editor of ActivityPub Evan Prodromou @evan created a paid Mastodon account (@evanplus) that users could subscribe to for $5 per month to gain access. If heβs on board with paid content, surely others would follow."
(the irony being of course that Evan did this with standard ActivityPub, no changes needed)