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 @tnypxl @jwz I care? (whoever I am). One cannot watch people make the same mistake again and again without getting at least a *little* sad? You *are* right.. but, you know.. being some rando.. It doesn't make much difference that I wish people would choose platforms to network socially, instead of platforms that exploit and manipulate every user on behalf of financial networks.. 🤷 10 comments
@tnypxl @jwz It's cool you believe, "it doesn't matter if a corporation is harvesting your and your social circle's data, and algorithmically forcing you to interact with whomever it calcates will piss you off most, to get rich" is the same as, "it doesn't matter if community collectives make tools available for you to share social data with whomever you associate with, without regard to how you freely navigate those relationships." But some people see a big difference. cheers. @tnypxl @mousey @jwz to me it sounds like a bunch of folks who don't understand what Bluesky the company is trying to do with AT Proto. I hear "jack dorsey" and my eyes glaze over. Maybe I'm wrong and they all know the details. But IMHO it's just another social network with federation options. Oh and pluggable algorithms. Would be nice if Mastodon had that. @jasonekratz @mousey @jwz Dorsey is a total knob. But I don’t know that any normal person would be willing to run a social platform of any kind in this era. Federation is honestly the best path forward in IMHO. Small web, no monoliths. I’m kind of hoping peer-to-peer takes off too. @tnypxl @jasonekratz @jwz he says on a community collective driven network of social nwtworks peopled by millions. I volunteer to help run the instance in my area. So it *is* happening. also. yeah, ATproto is gonna be crap, and reflect google-like lockin, which is what they want. @tnypxl @jwz i would be *very* alarmed, if people were *forced* to, (though technically some people are, like for their work), it's fine that it's not mandatory. that's not what i mean. nobody's forcing you to. People think the value proposition is worth it. They're just wrong, and now they're puppets in the profit-driven-political-influence-army machines, with no say in their interactions. as long as it continues to be a choice, i agree.. not alarmist, iust really sad, and socially harmful. |
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@mousey @jwz I agree that most startups are just financial instruments. But these platforms don’t matter. They’re just places to hang out and that’s really it.
They’re all the same.