@dansup

Any chance of taking Jack Dorsey seriously died when he said you shouldn't rely on corporations for rights but rather "freedom technology"....which is controlled by corporations

"don’t depend on corporations to grant you rights. defend them yourself using freedom technology. (you’re on one)"

- A tweet he made on twitter/x

@dansup competition is good, Mastodon is an incredibly long way from perfect, and this article talks a hell of a lot about Jack Dorsey, who basically gave them some money one time and hasn’t shown any interest in the organisation since.

Even if it ends up being somewhere halfway between centralised and decentralised, so what? It’s just another platform that people can choose to use if they want to. It’s mostly just great to see new things being tried.

@dansup true, but at least Jack isn't involved anymore. he somehow picked a worse protocol to get behind

@dansup "If I were a betting man I would bet that in five years it will keep on using the centralized DID Placeholder, and that that will be a root cause of a lot of shenanigans."

You don't even have to bet, because they just publicly gave up one of their core promises:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03239