Gregory's Server@atomicpoet The point was that we have team accounts on social networks we don't own. Other teammates have chatted with the dotnet.social admin (I think to ask if it was cool to join the server). You can read more about the server in its about link. If you're certain it's some kind of conspiracy, I'm not going to try to dissuade you, it sounds very exciting and I don't want to spoil the fun.
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In the history of rock and roll major labels were happy to colonize a new market with a "brand x" approach to distance themselves from potentially politically risky ventures. It's not like people haven't been watching big capitals playbook for a minute and seen a similar schtick elsewhere in industry. @jongalloway @atomicpoet Hey Jon, how is Bill Gates doing? Tell him I'm ready to spin up mastodon.microsoft.com for you guys 😄 @jongalloway to be honest, it's only a joke until it becomes true in the future due to improved federation protocols @atomicpoet has a good vision about what is coming because he sees the inherent value in the overall community, but those times are yet to come @ricardo @atomicpoet Hey, I'd love to see it. I'm cautiously optimistic about social media pivoting from perversely optimized content engagement farms to open protocols. I was a big fan of RSS, OpenID, open web, and protocols over platforms long before I worked for Microsoft. I don't have any info about any bigco strategies right now, I'm on a small team that wants to share blog post and stuff. But I'd love to see a resurgence of decentralized media. @ricardo @atomicpoet Obviously Microsoft brings some baggage into conversations about open source and open protocols. That's expected. But I'm hopeful that this can both be a positive step, including offering an alternative to those who want to stay connected but get off twitter and in helping show some momentum to other teams who want to get on Mastodon. @ricardo @atomicpoet Sorry if I was a bit snarky earlier. I honestly wish there was a big plan, but there's none that I know of. I'm trying to move things forward by getting people I work with to just get started sharing here more. @jongalloway I understand perfectly there is no foul play by your part or by any team at your company for trying to get into the Mastodon social nets: I recognize you are driven by healthy community feedback and you need to create channels to get it in a way or another. The functional dependencies necessary to execute such masterminded conspiracy are not here yet; @atomicpoet brings valid points that can become very real in the future but not at the moment and I can explain why and how... @jongalloway @atomicpoet there are conflicts going on at executive levels regarding the influence of bigtech and social platforms upon society; those problems are being treated at supranational levels at this right moment: https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/02/1133827 But those problems are above all computational problems of decentralization/centralization that need to be objectively solved at protocol levels: that's why there is a current demand for things like https://blueskyweb.xyz/ @jongalloway @atomicpoet so while those problems are not solved, bigtech executives can't mastermind things like Mastodon takeovers because they can easily backfire |
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Just piping in to make sure I confirm that no negation attempt has been made at the assumption that Microsoft's legal team has signed off on the exploration of the fediverse by Microsoft engineers who are taking an interest in this space?
That there are formal blessings up the chain of command makes all the difference don't be silly.
Not a tech insider but the "what difference does it make" question... chain of command is chain of command and there's a million reasons it's relevant beyond those of the scope of the OPs considerations.
@jongalloway @atomicpoet
Just piping in to make sure I confirm that no negation attempt has been made at the assumption that Microsoft's legal team has signed off on the exploration of the fediverse by Microsoft engineers who are taking an interest in this space?
That there are formal blessings up the chain of command makes all the difference don't be silly.